PRAGUE, Jan 31 The main task in supporting Ukraine is show perseverance and perseverance, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Tuesday after meeting with his Slovak counterpart Rastislav Kacher in the town of Pezinok (in western Slovakia).
«The Czech Republic provides Ukraine with great assistance. The main issue in providing this assistance now is our perseverance, our resilience,» Lipavsky said, adding that we must be prepared for the fact that the conflict in Ukraine will be protracted.
«Russia's imperial expansionism is obvious. We must endure, we must maintain unity in the coalition that supports Ukraine,» Kacher said in turn.
Both ministers supported Kyiv's integration intentions.
«The Czech Republic fully supports the European ambitions of Ukraine, whose citizens are now fighting not to be another 'Moscow province', to have freedom and democracy in the country in order to protect their sovereignty and territorial integrity,» Lipavsky said .
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. The ultimate goal of the operation, according to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, is «the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that would guarantee the security of Russia itself.»