"Every year, we send 2.5bn in the budget to Brussels. And of course Brussels is helping Ukraine. So I think we are there, Babis said."
"labelling him as a potential troublemaker was not fair."
"He also told Ukrainian media that Ukraine was not prepared for the EU and that we have to end the war first."
Andrej Babis won the Czech parliamentary elections and pledged to halt military aid to Ukraine, aligning him with Viktor Orban and Robert Fico. The outgoing centre-right Czech government had backed Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022. The likely incoming prime minister intends to review a Czech-led initiative that supplied 3.5 million artillery shells to Ukraine since 2024. Babis stressed pro-European credentials and noted Czech budget contributions to the EU while saying Ukraine is not yet prepared for EU membership and that the war must end first. US diplomats reported Cuban forces fighting alongside Russian troops, estimated at 1,000–5,000.
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