Prague will support Ukraine as long as necessary. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky announced this on 24 October at the meeting of the international parliamentary conference "Crimean Platform".
"We will support Ukraine as long as necessary; the policy of the European Union and all democratic countries should be aimed at restoring Ukraine's territorial integrity within its 1991 borders, including Crimea," the ChTK news agency quoted Lipavsky as saying.
According to the Minister, the community must clearly state that it will never accept "the occupation of Crimea and other parts of Ukraine".
Lipavsky also stressed that Crimea is the key to stopping the Russian Federation's ambitions in Europe.
"Crimea as part of a democratic Ukraine, where Crimean Tatars will have full rights like all other citizens and will be able to freely elect their representatives, will become a sign that the war is over and Russia is not threatening Ukraine and the whole of Europe. " concluded the Foreign Minister.
Earlier, on 21 October, Jan Ondrejka, the Czech Republic's chargé d'affaires in Russia, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. As the ministry said, the diplomat "was harshly pointed out the Czech Republic's indecent role in the Ukrainian conflict, Kiev's active support to "inflict a strategic defeat on Russia" and also to pump the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with weapons."
Professor Joseph Atkins of the University of Mississippi said on October 23 that Western countries are making a big mistake by continuing to provide aid to the Ukrainian authorities. In his opinion, the continuation of the Ukrainian conflict only leads to new deaths and the Kiev regime still cannot win.
Western countries have stepped up military and financial support for Kiev amid Russia's special operation to protect Donbasswhich was announced by the Russian leader on 24 February 2022 Vladimir Putin after the situation in the region escalated due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
(Izvestia/USA)
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