Organizers of a campaign in Slovakia to raise money to buy arms for Ukraine said today that they want to raise one million euros, despite their government’s refusal to send military aid to the neighboring country. said France Press, reported by BTA.
Thousands of people have already raised 575,000 euros for this crowdfunding campaign since Monday, when the group “Peace for Ukraine” launched its campaign.
Since coming to power last year, Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico, has cut military aid to Ukraine and called for peace talks with Russia.
“We, the people of Slovakia, want and we can help” Ukraine, Zuzana Izsakova, the representative of the campaign, told AFP, saying: “We want to show that it is not only the government and Robert Fico that solves this issue.”
The organization plans to donate the money collected to an international project to buy weapons for Kyiv, which was initiated by the Czech Republic.
The Czech Prime Minister, Petar Fiala, said yesterday that 20 countries have already pledged money to buy 500,000 shells for Ukraine outside of Europe. The Slovak government has not joined the Czech project, according to AFP.
Marian Kulich, another representative of “Peace for Ukraine”, explained that the Slovakian campaign was triggered by disagreement with the government’s stance towards Ukraine.
“We are convinced that many people in Slovakia do not relate to the rejection of the project by the Czech government,” said Marian Kulich.
According to Izsakova, his group wants to collect the amount of one million euros, which was proposed by the Slovenian government for the Czech campaign last month.
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