The car of the Czech Ambassador to the Russian Federation near the building of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow. Archive photoPRAGUE, Apr 16The Czech Foreign Ministry will not respond to the Russian note on the inadmissibility of providing weapons of Soviet origin to third countries, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Saturday. «The Czech Foreign Ministry received a note (RF) on that weapons of Soviet origin supposedly should not be provided to third countries without the permission of Russia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Czech Republic) did not react to this note and will not react due to the fact that this is factual nonsense and that for this material (in the documents) there is no clause on re-export. This is another false way for Russia to seek the termination of our support for Ukraine,» the head of the Foreign Ministry quoted by the ChTK agency said. According to Lipavsky, military and other assistance to Ukraine clearly meets the strategic interests of the Czech Republic. According to local media, the Czech Republic after February 24 sent to Ukraine in the form of assistance T-72 tanks, which were in army warehouses in the republic, as well as other military equipment of the Soviet and Czechoslovak about production. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Defense Ministry, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
