Czech Crowdfunding Buys Million Dollar Tank For Ukraine

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Czech Crowdfunding Buys Million Dollar Tank For Ukraine

A Czech crowd-funding campaign has successfully raised more than $1.30m to buy a modernised tank for the Ukrainian army.

Dubbed “a gift for Putin”, the campaign received donations from 11,288 individual donors, and organisers say it is the first purchase of its kind.

The modernised Soviet-era T-72 tank named Tomas will be sent to Ukraine.

The fund was backed by the Czech defence ministry and Ukraine’s embassy in Prague.

In a message posted to Twitter, the Czech Defence Minister Jana Cernochova joked that contributors had bought Russian President Vladimir Putin – who marks his 70th birthday on 7 October – “a proper present”.

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