{"id":1421505,"date":"2022-04-06T08:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421505"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:59:46","slug":"czech-republic-becomes-first-nato-country-to-ship-tanks-to-ukraine-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/czech-republic-becomes-first-nato-country-to-ship-tanks-to-ukraine-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic Becomes First NATO Country to Ship Tanks to Ukraine: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fczech-republic-becomes-first-nato-country-to-ship-tanks-to-ukraine-reports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Czech Republic has reportedly become the first NATO member state to send tanks to Ukraine in an apparent escalation between the West and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Following repeated calls for heavy armaments from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is claimed to have sent Soviet-era tanks and other infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine to bolster their efforts against the renewed invasion by Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Czech MP Ond\u0159ej Bene\u0161\u00edk of the\u00a0Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People\u2019s Party (KDU-\u010cSL) shared images on social media purporting to show the deliveries of the military vehicles to Ukraine, including modern BVP infantry fighting vehicles and T-72 tanks, which were initially developed by the Soviet Union in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister of Defense Jana \u010cernochov\u00e1 deserves great praise, this is what the hard-to-fight Ukrainian army really needs now,\u201d Bene\u0161\u00edk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenesikOndra\/status\/1511225607916503042\">wrote<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the apparent confirmation, the\u00a0Minister of Defense would neither confirm nor deny the arms shipment to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Appearing before the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament,\u00a0\u010cernochov\u00e1 said <a href=\"https:\/\/ct24.ceskatelevize.cz\/specialy\/rusko-ukrajinsky-konflikt\/3466092-cesko-dodalo-ukrajine-bojova-vozidla-pechoty-a-tanky-t-72\">according<\/a> to public broadcaster Czech Television:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019d like to confirm or refute the photos that go around social networks. I apologize to you, I will not confirm them or refute them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will just assure you that the Czech Republic, the government of [Prime Minister] Petr Fiala, will help Ukraine with all its might and will continue to help with military material, both light and heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you more. The war is raging there and we won\u2019t make anything easy for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/30\/ukraine-demands-all-countries-criminalize-use-of-russian-z-symbol\/\">Z-killers<\/a>! Believe me, we are sending essential military material to Ukrainian friends. And we will continue to do so,\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jana_cernochova\/status\/1511317702928912390\">added<\/a>\u00a0on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"cs\" dir=\"ltr\">Byly zaznamen\u00e1ny dod\u00e1vky \u010desk\u00fdch BVP a tank\u016f T-72. Ministryn\u011b obrany <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jana_cernochova?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jana_cernochova<\/a> si zaslou\u017e\u00ed velkou pochvalu, tohle te\u010f t\u011b\u017ece bojuj\u00edc\u00ed ukrajinsk\u00e1 arm\u00e1da opravdu velmi pot\u0159ebuje \ud83d\udc4d<br \/>V\u011b\u0159\u00edm, \u017ee se poda\u0159\u00ed v t\u011bchto dod\u00e1vk\u00e1ch\ud83c\uddff pokra\u010dovat.<br \/>Sl\u00e1va Ukrajin\u011b \ud83c\uddfa\u270c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1QPVTyULAi\">https:\/\/t.co\/1QPVTyULAi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ond\u0159ej Bene\u0161\u00edk (@BenesikOndra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenesikOndra\/status\/1511225607916503042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence did reveal that since the start of the Russian invasion, the government has donated some one billion Czech crowns (\u00a334\/$44 million) worth of military equipment to Ukraine, however, the government would not stipulate the types of weaponry or vehicles for security reasons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1aec644e-baf7-4759-b982-e71f9eb5e948\">report<\/a> from the <em>Financial Times<\/em>, the latest purported shipments of tanks from Czechia were donations rather than sales, and the Eastern European country has been sending tanks to Ukraine for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>While other major powers, including the United States and UK have been shipping arms to Ukraine, they have not gone so far as to send heavy equipment such as tanks, meaning that the move from the Czech Republic \u2014 a NATO member \u2014 could be seen as an escalation in the proxy war between the West and Russia. Other NATO powers have generally limited themselves to sending defensive weapons, like anti-tank and anti-air missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraininan President Volodymyr Zelensky has long been calling on the West to supply his country with weapons and tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing via video before the European Parliament on March 24th, Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-na-samiti-n-73785\">said<\/a>: \u201cYou have at least 20,000 tanks. Ukraine asked for a per cent, one per cent of all your tanks to be given or sold to us!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another potentially significant move, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ukraine-quietly-receives-tanks-from-czech-republic-to-support-war-effort-11649160666\">reported<\/a> that both the Czech Republic and neighbouring Slovakia are preparing to open up their military-industrial supply lines in order to repair damaged Ukrainian equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The American paper also claimed that the Czech Army has also supplied Ukraine with\u00a0howitzers for artillery and amphibious infantry fighting vehicles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Czechs Warned They Could Be Jailed for Supporting Russia on Social Media<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P2ggkDEZOI\">https:\/\/t.co\/P2ggkDEZOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1498629171806932992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Republic has reportedly become the first NATO member state to send tanks to Ukraine in an apparent escalation between the West and Russia. 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