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Czech president announces upcoming shipment of shells to Ukraine

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Czech president announces upcoming shipment of shells to Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers reload ammunition during assault training in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on May 13, 2024, amid Russia's war against Ukraine. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Czech President Petr Pavel announced on July 12 that the Czech Republic will send Ukraine 50,000 rounds of ammunition in July and August. From September to the end of the year, Ukraine will receive 80,000 to 100,000 rounds of ammunition per month, he added.

This initiative is part of the Czech Republic's plan to supply half a million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine in 2024, according to the Czech Television Company.

After attending the NATO summit in Washington, Pavel arrived in Houston on July 12 to speak at a political debate and meet with local politicians and businessmen.

In February, Pavel announced that Prague had identified 500,000 155 mm shells and 300,000 122 mm shells outside Europe that could be purchased and sent to Ukraine once the necessary funds were allocated.

By late March, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said that several countries had contributed funds to the Czech initiative, potentially resulting in the delivery of 1.5 million rounds to Kyiv.

At the end of June, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced that the first batch of ammunition had arrived in Ukraine.

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Olena Goncharova

Head of North America desk

Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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