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, the organizers announced on Monday. More than 11,000 people took part in the Ukrainian embassy’s campaign under the slogan “A gift for Putin”.
The tank already has a name: The organizers named 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 “respectable gift” for his 70th birthday on Oct. 7, she sarcastically noted. She called the Kremlin boss a “KGB agent, murderer and swindler”.
Money is being raised for ammunition
The next step is to raise 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 Defense Ministry has supplied Ukraine with weapons and ammunition worth more than EUR 160 million since the start of the Russian attack at the end of February.
Source: Krone
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