On Thursday 3 March 2022, on the proposal of Defence Minister Jana Černochová, the Government of the Czech Republic authorised another donation to Ukraine, this time by the Czech defence industry.
The Ministry of Defence received materiel valued at CZK 17 million from CZUB Česká zbrojovka, Holík International, DSS and Sellier & Bellot. The Government of the Czech Republic instantly endorsed a free transfer of the title to that property to Ukraine.
“I thank very much to all involved defence industries for having made available the materiel in several days, which Ukraine critically needs for defence against the Putin aggression,” said Minister Černochová, who had subject-matter discussions with the defence industry representatives on Sunday 27 February 2022.
Specifically, the defence businesses will donate hundreds of machine guns, assault rifles, submachine guns, over 100 thousand cartridges and roughly one thousand tactical gloves. To the effect of accelerating the whole process, the industries donated the materiel to the MoD, which will hand it over to Ukraine once authorised by the Government.
That is already the fifth shipment military materiel, which takes the aggregate value of donations to CZK 650+ million. Already at the end of January, the Czech Republic first decided to donate 4,006 calibre 152mm artillery shells valued at CZK 36.6 million. Short after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, the Government quickly decided to donate thousands of rifles and pistols along with millions of munitions valued at more than CZK 188 million and later also some heavy equipment valued at almost CZK 400 million. On Wednesday 2 March 2021, military medical materiel in the total value of CZK 20.885 million was donated from the stocks of the Czech Armed Forces.
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