{"id":428087,"date":"2025-09-16T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428087\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:22:15","slug":"czech-ammo-lifeline-for-ukraine-comes-under-fire-at-home-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428087\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech ammo lifeline for Ukraine comes under fire at home \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The effort has come under fire for a perceived lack of transparency, but in an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/audio\/play\/w3ct7wzx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> interview with the BBC<\/a>, Pavel called such complaints &#8220;efforts to undermine the initiative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, ANO\u2019s skepticism about the ammunition effort has struck a chord with Czech voters. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stem.cz\/skepse-cechu-ohledne-vyvoje-valky-na-ukrajine-dale-roste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June poll <\/a>by the Stem organization asked about the level of Czech support for Ukraine: 49 percent said it was too much, 29 percent that it was about right, and 6 percent felt it was not enough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2221958505-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7167021\"  \/>Czech President Petr Pavel has said that before the initiative, Russia had a tenfold advantage in artillery ammunition, but that has since been whittled down to 2-to-1 in Moscow&#8217;s favor. |  Patrick van Katwijk\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Vyte\u010dka stressed that the government aims to be as transparent as possible, but noted that some information must be kept from the public. &#8220;We cannot publicly disclose the type or price of the ammunition, its destination, or the delivery date. However, every single donation is reported on a weekly basis,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Through the ammunition initiative, he added, the Czech Republic has come to play a significant role in organizing military aid for Ukraine without assuming a greater financial burden.<\/p>\n<p>Prague gains credibility<\/p>\n<p>Martin Vok\u00e1lek, head of the Brussels office of Czech think tank Europeum, agreed and added that Prague has gained significant political clout by having organized the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross Europe, at least in my circle of colleagues, this is something we are known for,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The effort has come under fire for a perceived lack of transparency, but in an interview with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[23404,71115,7703,97491,3032,473,7057,2000,299,7058,85427,97492,7061,332,657,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-428087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-ammunition","9":"tag-andrej-babis","10":"tag-artillery","11":"tag-czech-politics","12":"tag-czech-republic","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-defense-budgets","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european-defense","18":"tag-general-petr-pavel","19":"tag-petr-fiala","20":"tag-procurement","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115212304348697968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}