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Czech service members depart for Slovakia, ready to deter the opponent and defend NATO borders
7.4.2022
The service members forming the Czech Armed Forces 1st Contingent NATO enhanced Vigilance Activity (eVA) Battle Group Slovakia departed from Pardubice and Chrudim. The contingent commanding officer Colonel Tomáš Unzeitig and the service personnel forming the command of the Multinational Battle Group eVA took off from the Pardubice based Operations Support Centre. Airborne soldiers who will form the core of the multinational combined infantry battalion started out from the barracks of the 43rd Airborne Regiment in Chrudim with commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Ivo Zelinka.
Czech Gripens off for their seventh mission
7.4.2022
At ten o’clock on Tuesday 29 March, a pair of JAS-39 Gripen aircraft took off the Čáslav Air Force Base heading for Lithuania, followed by three more supersonic fighters only some ten minutes later. The members of the 7th Task Force left for Lithuania a week earlier.
NATO Defence Ministers discussed Russian invasion of Ukraine, strengthening the Alliance’s defence posture
17.3.2022
On Wednesday 16 March 2022, Defence Minister Jana Černochová took part in the extraordinary meeting of NATO Defence Ministers in Brussels. The meeting’s key outcome was the condemnation of the Russian invasion and a demonstration of the unified Allied support to Ukraine.
Government endorsed donation of military medical materiel to Ukraine
8.3.2022
On Wednesday 2 March 2022, the Government of the Czech Republic endorsed another donation to Ukraine based on proposal by Defence Minister Jana Černochová. This time the donation comprised medical materiel from the stocks of the Czech Armed Forces, specifically medical kits, CLS backpacks, folding stretchers, medical absorbent fabric, medicaments and various consumable medical materiel in the total value of CZK 20.885 million.
Government endorsed donation of military materiel from Czech defence industries
8.3.2022
On Thursday 3 March 2022, on the proposal of Defence Minister Jana Černochová, the Government of the Czech Republic authorised another donation to Ukraine, this time by the Czech defence industry.