Ammunition for Ukraine

Campaign objective

This year, the Czech Republic has become one of Ukraine's most important allies in the fight against Russian occupation thanks to an international government initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine. Although this ambitious initiative mainly involves states that have already contributed tens of millions of euros in contributions and are contributing funds from their national budgets, thanks to the co-operation of Slovak and Czech initiatives, you can now participate as well. We have already contributed more than Slovenia or Iceland.

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What will be purchased

After consultations with the Ukrainian side, we intend to buy mainly 122 mm calibre ammunition, which Ukraine can use in older weapon systems, which are the backbone of Ukraine's defence. If the opportunity arises, we also have the resources to purchase more modern 155 mm ammunition, which is used in weapons supplied by Western countries. However, this is much more expensive and its purchases are mainly made by the countries associated in the so-called 'Czech Ammunition Initiative'.

We are currently buying the first batch of ammunition for EUR 4 million, and we would like to order the next batch as we approach the fifth million.

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Slovak courage

This collection was created as a reaction of people in Slovakia who wanted to oppose the decision of the government of Robert Fico to stop military aid to Ukraine and not to join the Czech ammunition initiative. In record time, 4 million euros were raised, making the Ammunition for Ukraine collection one of the largest and fastest growing collections in history.

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Who is behind this initiative

The collection is jointly organized by the civic initiative Peace for Ukraine and Weapons to Ukraine (last year we raised money for the Božena V demining machine together), and the project is also supported by All4Ukraine, Donio.sk and the organization Nezlomní. The media campaign is supported by Future Army, Infosecurity.sk, Sebavedomé Slovensko and Aktuálne o Ukrainy.