I had a nice trip with @sesivany from Prague to Brno. We just found out at the #Fedora 40 release party yesterday that we were taking the same train. We shared travel stories and Jiří gave me some good advice for my trip. Děkuji
The #Czech Republic's President #Pavel says in an German #ARD interview that #Ukraine will be getting 180,000 artillery shells in June.
"I, along with our Prime Minister Petr #Fiala, assume that the first 180,000 pieces of ammunition will be delivered in June, and there are already contracts for a further five to six-digit number of grenades."
Včera jsme v prvním průsmyku v horách, na začátku oblasti postižené zemětřesením za městečkem Asni, náhodou narazili na skupinu českých turistů, vedenou legendarním poděbradským průvodcem po Maroku Oroňem. Ten byl dle svých slov v Maroku už 80x ...
Setkání nám hodně pozvedlo náladu. A Oroň nám slíbil v případě problémů po Whatsappu...
The deputy head of #Ukraines military intelligence told the #Economist that the order has gone out for #Russia to “take something” before #VictoryDay on May 9th, or a week later.
An offensive is expected in the #Kharkiv and #Sumy regions.
The #Czech FM said that although his country has helped #Ukrainian refugees, it doesn't support #draft age Ukrainian men avoiding fighting by staying abroad.
There are 94,643 Ukrainian men aged 18 to 65 in the Czech Republic. Ukraine has been trying to get them to return.
2 Russian-born #Czech citizens ran a #hotel in #Greece that doubled as #SafeHouse for infamous unit of Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU) as it carried out #bombings & #poisonings across Europe
Husband/wife Nikolay & Elena #Saposnikov ran Villa Elena, a 3-story hotel hosted members of #Kremlin's “most grimly accomplished #assassination and #sabotage squad,” Unit #29155, on a regular basis for the last 15 years.
Slovak activists collected over 2.6 million euros ($2.8 million) for the #Czech ammunition initiative for #Ukraine in five days after the Slovak government refused to participate.
Slovak citizens started their campaign "Ammunition for Ukraine" on April 16 to raise additional funds for the Czech-led initiative of purchasing 500,000 155 mm shells and 300,000 122 mm shells outside of Europe to provide Ukraine with them.