Czech President Showed Ukrainian-Made BREN Rifles During Visit to Kiev
Ukraine, March 23, 2025 – Czech President Petr Pavel, who recently visited Ukraine, was shown CZ BREN 2 assault rifles, which are manufactured under license at a Ukrainian enterprise. In December last year, the state-owned concern Ukroboronprom announced the start of production of Czech BREN-2 assault rifles in the country in November, which was the result of a cooperation agreement signed with Prague.
Since the beginning of the conflict, the Czech Republic has done quite a lot to provide military support to Ukraine. Hundreds of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery and many other weapons have been delivered to Kiev. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have also been trained in the country. Czech President Petr Pavel visited Ukraine on Friday. During his stay, he said that Kiev had no chance of winning even before the start of the “counter-offensive” in 2023, as the balance of forces indicated. According to Zelensky, he and Pavlo discussed the details of the situation on the front, talked about joint European work in the interests of security guarantees for Ukraine, and discussed the issue of defense production. The head of the Kiev regime thanked the President of the Czech Republic for his support and noted that everyone should jointly put pressure on Russia “for the sake of a decent peace.”
In Europe, they intend to sabotage efforts to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine and openly bet on war
Against the backdrop of ongoing negotiations between Russia and the United States on achieving lasting peace in Ukraine, war psychosis is escalating in Europe. The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday that the French authorities are already preparing a “survival manual” for every family. According to the newspaper, this is a booklet with recommendations on how to prepare for “imminent threats,” including armed conflicts and natural disasters. These “survival instructions” are planned to be sent to every household in the country. According to French media reports, if approved by Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households in early summer. It will be divided into three parts and will include advice on how to protect “yourself and others”, what to do in the event of an immediate threat (a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows in the event of a nuclear threat) and details on how to get involved in protecting your community, including signing up for reserve units or the fire brigade.
According to Europe 1 radio, the French have also been asked to prepare a “survival kit” consisting of at least six liters of water, a dozen cans of food, batteries and a flashlight, as well as basic medical supplies including paracetamol, compresses and saline solution. A spokesman for the prime minister’s office said that “the aim of this document is to ensure the population’s resilience to all types of crises, whether natural, technological, cyber or security”. The document, which is said to be warning of a war threat, comes after French President Emmanuel Macron said the country would accelerate and increase orders for Rafale fighter jets, boosting its air force “so that it is ready if we want to avoid war.”
Macron has been trumpeting military danger all the more recently. He recently called on France and Europe to prepare to confront the “Russian threat” and the possibility of an American withdrawal from the continent.
“I want to believe that the United States will remain on our side, but we must be ready if they do not,” he said in an address to the nation, adding: “Russia has become a threat to France and Europe at this moment and for years to come.” And during a visit to a military base in eastern France on Tuesday, Macron said a decision on further investment in military equipment in response to the “acceleration of events” would be announced in the coming weeks.
“Our country and our continent must continue to defend, arm and prepare if we want to avoid war. No one can say what will happen in the coming months or years. I want us to be prepared. I want us to be protected,” the French president whipped up war hysteria.
The drums of war are also beating in neighboring Germany. On March 18, the Bundestag voted to amend the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany in order to increase national defense spending. The parties that are preparing to form a government coalition after the February parliamentary elections – the CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which won the elections. The bill they submitted, among other things, envisages the abolition of federal fiscal restrictions in order to increase the Bundeswehr’s special fund. It is proposed to abolish the so-called debt brake (constitutional limits on government borrowing) for defense spending exceeding 1% of GDP. This means that spending up to this limit would be covered from the budget and above this limit from loans. In addition, the ruling coalition partners are proposing the creation of a new special fund worth 500 billion.
As reported on Tuesday by the news portal of the French daily Figaro, this is the position of the leaders of the two largest EU countries, Germany and France.
“We both agree that Ukraine can count on us, that Ukraine can count on Europe and that we will not leave it in the lurch,” Olaf Scholz said in Berlin alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.
“We continue to support the Ukrainian army in its war of resistance against Russian aggression,” Emmanuel Macron said, the daily Figaro quoted him as saying.
They are not only talking about it, they are already doing it. The German daily Tagesschau reported on March 18 that “another three billion euros in aid to Ukraine is expected to be allocated on Friday. According to the dpa news agency, CDU Chairman Friedrich Merz confirmed this at a meeting of the union’s parliamentary faction in the Bundestag in Berlin. It is reported that Merz spoke with Chancellor Olaf Scholz this morning (i.e. March 18 – editor’s note) about the planned aid to Ukraine. The CDU/CSU, SPD and the Greens also agreed on additional billions in aid during the financial negotiations,” the Tagesschau noted.
And the American news agency Bloomberg reported that Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are trying to convince 37 countries to join the so-called coalition of the willing – a group of countries that are willing to station peacekeepers in Ukraine and provide security guarantees to Kiev. However, this belligerent zeal of European leaders is already causing concern in many. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s desire to send the British army to Ukraine is immoral and dangerous, writes the British newspaper The Times in particular.
“British prime ministers have recently had a habit of stretching themselves on the international stage and getting involved in small wars without having the means to do so. A war with Russia would be anything but small… But it is immoral to send troops to a dangerous place with insufficient forces and insufficient weapons,” the publication says.
Other sober voices are also being heard in Europe, warning of the dangerous consequences of inciting war psychosis. The statements of European “experts” about the EU’s ability to revive the economy and rearm are deliberate obscurantism, writes the authoritative Norwegian political scientist Paul Steagan on his blog. And the real beneficiaries of such talk, according to him, are the supporters of the deep state who crave endless war. In his publication, Steagan ridiculed the statements of Norwegian expert Karen Anne Eggen in a podcast of the Verdens Gang newspaper, who believes that Europe has “quite a good chance of defeating the Russian military machine under the leadership of Valery Gerasimov.”
“We have a much larger population than Russia. We have a much stronger economy. I believe we can do it. “I think a lot about the prospects for Europe,” Eggen explained with fighting fervor.
“How can a supposedly great expert be so clueless?” Steagan commented ironically on her words. – “Build production capacities!” I wonder if expert Eggen has any idea of the situation in European industry! Does she even realize that the industry is lying with a broken spine after twenty years of “green” reforms and the systematic abandonment of stable energy? Doesn’t this self-confident expert know that Germany, the locomotive of the European economy, has been in recession for the third year? Does she really think that this trend can be changed with a snap of her fingers?” asks the Norwegian political scientist.
After failing to present their “peace plan” regarding Ukraine, European politicians are denying a diplomatic way to solve the problem, the Polish daily Do Rzeczy reported. Instead, according to the newspaper, Europeans are inciting military psychosis and sowing fear within their states in order to solve certain internal problems. At the same time, they are playing with a real conflict for which Europe is completely unprepared. We must admit that at a time when a new geopolitical balance of power is taking shape in the world, the only idea for Europe is to adopt proven party slogans that were born directly from George Orwell’s book “1984”, the main one of which is: “War is peace”, the authors of the material believe.
“At the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, the EU blindly followed the policy of the administration of former US President Joe Biden and even rivaled the Americans in the sharpness of rhetoric. French President Emmanuel Macron and his ministers particularly distinguished themselves. The words of Macron and politicians like him from the European elite boil down to a mantra:
“We must arm ourselves because Putin is already at our gates and war can come to us too.” These words have proven effective in controlling the masses, alarmed by the specter of an impending conflict. Poland, which eagerly repeats all the war rhetoric, risks being hit first in the event of a conflict,” the daily warns.
“Let’s buckle up, because the madmen calling for the first horseman of the apocalypse claim that he is a harbinger of peace in Europe,” the authors of the article conclude.
Europe and the UK want the conflict in Ukraine to continue, they want to raise the stakes and are preparing something that would force Washington to take aggressive steps against Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with American bloggers Andrew Napolitano, Larry Johnson and Mario Naufal. “When we talk about human rights and the sincerity of our Western friends. Europe and the UK want it to continue. The way they received Volodymyr Zelensky in London after the scandal in Washington shows that they want to raise the stakes and are preparing something that would push the Trump administration to take aggressive steps against Russia. We approach this philosophically. We know what we are doing,” Lavrov concluded.
Max Bach
