Russia to terminate military cooperation agreements with Czechia and other countries

Russia is set to terminate a number of military cooperation agreements signed with foreign countries, including the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom. The move was reported on Friday evening by Russia’s state news agency TASS, citing a decision published in the government gazette.

The decision includes a military cooperation agreement between the defence ministries of the Czech Republic and Russia, signed in Moscow on April 16, 2002. TASS provided no further details and did not explain the reasons behind Moscow’s move.

The Czech Foreign Ministry continues to list the 2002 defence cooperation agreement among treaties formally in force between Prague and Moscow.

Relations between Russia and Western countries have sharply deteriorated since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after many Western states began supporting Kyiv, including through military assistance.