Stuck out after returning from Ukraine to Prague: Atrocities are true, brutality of Russian soldiers great
Senate chief Vystrčil said that the offer to visit Ukraine came from Ukrainian officials and representatives of other EU countries. So one of the goals was to satisfy the Ukrainian side and see what it looks like in the war-torn areas.
That the atrocities committed are truths and the brutality of the Russian soldiers is high, stated the head of the Senate. The first vice-president of the Senate, Jiří Růžička (TOP 09), confirmed that the Ukrainian side also expressed a wish to supply more weapons and especially heavy weapons. According to him, it is more of an appeal to other states, because the Czechia supplies heavy weapons to Ukraine. According to them, they do not see the point in adding hundreds of thousands of pistols when Ukrainians need heavy weapon systems.
According to Vystrčil, the Czechia considers Ukraine to be a sovereign, independent and functioning country that has its own parliament, which functions even under these difficult conditions. According to him, the war-torn country now needs additional military and humanitarian aid, as well as moral support, which should lead to Ukraine’s membership in the EU. According to the President of the Senate, Ukrainian officials need politicians from democratic countries to come, become eyewitnesses and say what happened in Ukraine.
He therefore wants to appeal to his colleagues to take a trip to Ukraine if they dare. According to him, this is one of the things that belongs to that war. “If someone asks what they can do if they can’t fire a submachine gun or can’t go there because NATO is a defense community, they can go see it. And if he has a strong enough voice, then he should shout those things to the world as he saw them there, “said Vystrčil. He added that this was one of the Ukrainian pleas.
Pushed out on Thursday with his Polish counterpart Tomasz Grodzki to visit Ukraine, which has been facing Russian invasion since the end of February. In a speech in the Ukrainian parliament, he rejected the possibility of territorial concessions to Russia and compared the actions of Russian soldiers in Ukrainian cities to the Nazi extermination of Czech communities. Czech and Polish senators also visited cities that suffered considerable damage during the Russian bombing and occupation.
He pushed out this morning at 05:44 and put information on his twitter account that he is on the Polish-Ukrainian border. DSenators arrived at Prague at Kbel Military Airport before nine o’clock and arrived at the Senate headquarters shortly before 9:00 a.m.
He said, “Let Babis go there too.”
Former Prime Minister and head of the ANO movement Andrej Babiš criticized the senators’ trip on Thursday. According to him, this path will not solve anything and it is a marketing matter. He pushed out today, saying that Babish should go to see Ukraine. “If he needs an invitation, I offer myself,” he noted. Senate Vice President Růžička called this downplaying of the trip shameful.
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Fischer: The war will leave traces for a generation
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Pavel Fischer, said, among other things, that it is the duty of senators, together with the government, to inform entrepreneurs that doing business in Russia can no longer return to what it used to be. “That is why we feel not only our duty to talk to entrepreneurs about it, but it is also our duty to open the door to new markets for our entrepreneurs, because this war will leave traces on the generation in Europe.” he added.
According to Fischer, Ukraine’s political representation is determined to work to make Ukraine free again in all its territories within internationally recognized borders. Fischer, like Vystrčil, sees it as his duty to inform NATO partners, and therefore wants to join the chairs of the parliamentary committees today and agree on a common approach.
Buča and Borodjanka as Lidice
According to Vystrčil, Ukraine must not end up like Czechoslovakia under the pre-war Munich agreement, due to which it lost part of its territory. He put it out in a speech to members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament. Concessions to dictators have never worked, he said. According to Vystrčil, Ukraine will forever be an example to all those who want freedom and democracy. It will be the common task of the European Union to rebuild it after the war provoked by Russia.
The fate of the Ukrainian cities of Buča, Irpiň or Borodjanka, the inhabitants of the population were murdered by Russian soldiers, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil compared in his speech to the Nazi-burned Czech municipalities of Lidice and Ležáky. The Ukrainian people were awarded the Silver Medal of the President of the Senate by the head of the Czech Upper House of Parliament. It was taken over by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefančuk, said Senate Press Secretary Jana Taušová.
He spoke out in favor of restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity when he recalled the Munich Agreementwhich in 1938 allowed Nazi Germany to occupy the border area of the former Czechoslovakia.
“Even if Putin launched tanks all over Ukraine, destroyed all the houses with rockets, killed tens of thousands of other women and children, and marched on their bodies on May 9, he would never win there. The determination, bravery and courage of the Russian cockroach will eventually step on the ground. Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes! ” said Senator Jiří Růžička.
“We must not allow Ukraine, for a minute or a second, for you Ukrainians to get into our ‘Munich’ situation. The concessions to the dictators did not work and will never work, “he said of the possibility that Ukraine would be deprived of the Donbas in addition to the Crimea. Russia, led by President Vladimir Putin, has provoked a barbaric and brutal war in a “reckless superpower dream,” and Putin, as well as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, must be punished for war crimes in Ukraine.
According to him, the President of the Senate is aware that Ukraine needs much more than visits from politicians.
“In the acute phase of the war, we can and must provide you with weapons and humanitarian aid. It is not only our gesture of support, but also our expression of faith that you will win this war, which you did not choose and provoke and which you still have to wage, “he said.
After the war, the common goal will have to be to build a new strong and free Ukraine on the wreckage of the war. “When I say common, I mean a clear offer of the prospect of Ukraine’s full and full membership in the European Union,” Vystrcil said.
Chief of the upper chamber recalled Czech aid to Ukrainian refugees and thanked Czech volunteers who joined the Ukrainian defenders.
At the end of the speech, he paraphrased the statement of the first Czech president, Václav Havel, when he wished everyone “For Ukrainian truth and love to triumph over Russian lies and hatred.”
The senators also brought a number of authentic experiences from Ukraine, which they described on social networks.
“The entrance to the Ukrainian parliament is lined with sandbags and masked by the nets that Ukrainian volunteers make from leftover substances. We took part in a meeting of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada with colleagues from the Czech and Polish Senates. The anthem of Ukraine was played at the beginning. It used to be played by trumpeters, but for a while it has only been sung. It was a powerful experience, there was strength, confidence and hope in the choral singing. Then the chairman declared a minute’s silence for all the victims of the fighting, “Fischer said on Facebook.