Support for Ukraine in Europe is diverse. In addition to governments, private individuals also donate money again and again. This is also the case in the Czech Republic, where there is even enough money for a battle tank. The action ran under the motto: "A gift for Putin".
A fundraiser in the Czech Republic has raised enough money to give Ukraine a modernized T-72 main battle tank. Within about a month, 30 million crowns - the equivalent of almost 1.2 million euros - came together, as the organizers announced on Monday. More than 11,000 people took part in the Ukrainian embassy's campaign under the motto "A gift for Putin". The tank already has a name: the organizers christened it "Tomas" after the co-founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.
Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova thanked everyone involved. They gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a "decent present" for his 70th birthday on October 7, she noted sarcastically. She called the Kremlin boss a "KGB agent, murderer and crook".
The next step is to collect money to buy ammunition for the tank. The Ukrainian embassy in the Czech Republic has already received donations totaling more than 8.6 million euros. In addition, the Czech Ministry of Defense has supplied arms and ammunition worth more than 160 million euros to Ukraine since the start of the Russian attack at the end of February.
