A crowdfunding campaign was launched in Slovakia to finance the purchase of ammunition for Ukraine. Organizers wanted to raise one million euros, rejecting their government's refusal to send military aid to their war-torn neighbor.
Thousands of people have already contributed 750,000 euros to this campaign since Monday. The organization plans to pass the money raised to an international project led by the Czech Republic to purchase ammunition for Kyiv. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala indicated on Tuesday that twenty countries had already committed to financing the purchase. The Slovak government did not join the Czech project. The group wants to match the million euros offered by the Slovenian government last month, according to Zuzana Izsakova, a representative of the initiative. "We want to show that it is not just the government and Robert Fico who decide this issue," she said, adding that many people in Slovakia do not identify with the Czech government's rejection of the project. 'We, the people of Slovakia, want and can help.'