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Prime Minister of the Czech Republic clarified that funds were raised to purchase the first batch of 300,000 artillery rounds for Ukraine.
"We are grateful to all the countries that joined the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine. We have managed to raise enough funds to buy the first batch of 300,000 artillery shells," said Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appealed to Russia after witnessing the attack on Odesa.
"You will not intimidate us, we will continue to support Ukraine and its great citizens for as long as it takes. And, of course, we will remain completely united in this decision," Mitsotakis said.
🇹🇷 Zelenskyy announced that he is starting negotiations with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
He thanked Türkiye "for reliable support of Ukraine" and noted that one of the topics of discussion was the creation of conditions for "unconditional security" of shipping in the Black Sea.
Erdogan again offered Türkiye as a platform for peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow, including a "peace summit" with the participation of Russia.
Zelenskyy has signed a decree naming the Ada-class corvette manufactured by Türkiye for Ukraine as "Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky".
The President visited a shipyard in Istanbul, where he was shown the construction of an Ada-class corvette for the Ukrainian Navy.
The contract for the construction of two corvettes for Ukraine was signed with Türkiye in September 2021. The first corvette, the "Hetman Ivan Mazepa," was launched in October 2022, and the keel of the "Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky" was set in August 2023.
The Ukrainian Navy said that the second corvette will be armed with MICA VL anti-aircraft missile systems, 76- and 35-mm guns, anti-ship cruise missiles (8 launchers) and Murene 90 Impact torpedoes.
French defense companies to build military equipment on Ukrainian soil, — French Defense Ministry.
"Three French companies will be setting up partnerships with Ukrainian companies, in particular in the drone and land equipment sectors, to produce spare parts on Ukrainian soil, and perhaps ammunition in the future. The idea is to have the first production units running this summer", said the French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
He hinted the companies involved would include tank maker KNDS, the holding structure formed by France's Nexter and Germany's Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann.
At the CENTAC combat training center in Mailles-les-Camps in the east of the country, French forces are preparing for a high-intensity conflict against an enemy that may have a similar level of firepower, — Politico.
The presence of NATO troops in Ukraine is not something unthinkable, — the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radosław Sikorski.
"I appreciate the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, because it says that Putin should be afraid of us, not us Putin," the diplomat said.
He emphasized that NATO should return to its "primary role", since Russia has proved to be civilizationally incapable of accepting Western values and cannot peacefully coexist with its neighbors.
🇸🇰 The leader of the far-right Slovak People's Party (SNS), which is part of the government coalition, Andriy Danko said that Russia "is not the aggressor" in a full-scale war against Ukraine, but is "protecting its interests”
In the center of Warsaw, Ukrainian women, giving flowers, thanked Polish women for their solidarity and support.
The head of the Kherson regional military administration, Prokudin, showed what a house in Kherson looked like after the Russian Federation was hit by an aerial bomb.