The Czech Republic plans to provide Ukraine with new military aid in the amount of almost $35 million.

Jana Černochová, Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic, voiced this.

“The aid that we are planning together with the Chief of the General Staff, Karel Řehka, amounts to 600 to 700 million Czech crowns,” Jana Černochová said.

These are military materials that are still in Czech depots and are not needed by the Czech army.

“The army can really send them to Ukraine without harming its own defense capabilities,” Černochová noted.

This statement was made by the head of the Czech defense department following her meeting with President Petr Pavel.

It is reported that she handed him the list of aid that the Czech Republic has already sent to Ukraine.

Černochová emphasized that, together with the Chief of the General Staff, they always ensure that the material sent to Ukraine can be replaced with something.

The House of Commons of the Czech Republic also supported sending up to 15 employees of the Military Law and Order Service to Ukraine to assist in the investigation of war crimes in Ukraine.

Czech military police officers will provide support to the International Criminal Court team investigating crimes in Ukraine. They will work mainly in Ukraine and possibly in the Netherlands, but not around the clock.

The Czech group is expected to deploy several times a year, each time for four to six weeks. The mission should last until the end of 2024. This year’s costs are estimated at CZK 12.4 million, next year – at CZK 17.2 million.

The direction of the mission, proposed by the Czech government in March, was supported by the Senate, the upper house of the parliament, last week. The investigation into war crimes in Ukraine formally began in March 2022, when forty parties to the Rome Statute, under which the International Criminal Court was established, submitted reports of crimes under international law. The International Criminal Court tries people for crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. It is recognized by more than 120 countries, but even the United States, for example, does not claim its jurisdiction on an equal footing with Russia.