The Czech Republic to hire thousands of Ukrainians for the production of weapons

Minister Tomáš Kopečný

Czechia will recruit thousands of experts from Ukraine to work in its arms factories, Deputy Defence Minister Tomáš Kopečný said in an interview for Czech Radio. 

According to mr. Kopečný, the agreement on this had been reached during a meeting between Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in October. 

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The deputy defence minister added, that the arrangement would be beneficial for both sides since Czech arms factories are short of skilled employees. For example, the Tatra company from the Czechoslovak Group holding is short of 500 people. The end number of Ukrainian workers would be in the thousands, depending on how the production capacities of Czech companies were increased, said Kopečný.

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