According to him, the flags were hung as a symbol of solidarity with the country that was attacked by the aggressor country Russia and “nothing has changed in this,” since Ukraine is still an object of the Russian Federation, and until a peace agreement is reached, the solidarity of the Czech Republic “should not weaken.”
He noted that the cessation of material, financial or military assistance could have a direct consequence in the form of loss of human lives, injuries and damage. The politician believes that assistance to Ukraine is an expression of the values for which the Czech Republic, as a democratic country, “should stand.”
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On November 6, the new head of the lower house of the Czech Parliament, Tomio Okamura, ordered the Ukrainian flag to be removed from the building of the Chamber of Deputies. He released a video of himself holding a stepladder as a man removes the Ukrainian flag from the Czech Parliament building.
After Okamura ordered the removal of the Ukrainian flag from the building of the Czech parliament, three Ukrainian flags appeared on it in the evening of the same day, which were hung from the windows of three parliamentary groups.
The head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ruslan Stefanchuk, said that “to tear off the Ukrainian flag from the building of the parliament of a European country, whose fraternal people support the Ukrainians in this just struggle, is a dubious achievement.”
