ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent
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After their PM halts Ukraine aid, Slovaks dig deep to help
BBC News
2024-04-19

Robert Fico might have promised to send “not one more round of ammunition” to Ukraine, but he wasn’t speaking for all Slovaks. When the government cut off state-supplied military aid, citizens banded together, raising €1m for artillery shells within 48 hours. They included Otto Simko, a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor and veteran of the Slovak National Uprising.