Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, whose country has begun its presidency of the Council of the EU.
Anti-Ukrainian remarks made in the New Year address by Tomio Okamura, the speaker of the lower house of the Czech parliament, have led to a significant increase in donations by Czechs for weapons for Ukrainian troops.
Antonín Kolář, a teacher and mayor of the village of Semněvice in Czechia, has initiated an open letter apologising for anti-Ukrainian statements by Speaker of the Czech Chamber of Deputies Tomio Okamura.