TIL that #Polish and #Lithuanian have both taken the transcription from #Czech. Yet each has a different one. Polish took it from Old Czech. But the Czech language reformed and when the Lithuanians wanted to distinguish their language from the dominant Polish during the national revival, they adopted the transcription from modern Czech. That is why Polish has "cz" and Lithuanian has "č".
#Russia is beating western capitals in securing artillery supplies on international markets, the #Czech government has said, warning that delayed payments to arms companies could lead to millions of ammunition rounds being sent to #Moscow instead of #Kyiv.
The Czechoslovak Group, warned that rising prices and poor quality meant that half the shells it had received could not be sent to #Ukraine’s battlefields as quickly as planned.
🇸🇪 #Sweden send military aid worth $1.3 billion to Ukraine: ASC-890 aircraft, PBV 302, artillery ammunition and AMRAAMs.
🇬🇧 "Kyiv has already launched Storm Shadow missile attacks on #Russia with the permission of #UK", - Yuriy Sak
🇨🇿 "The first batch of artillery shells within the framework of the #Czech initiative will arrive in #Ukraine in the coming days", - PM of the Czech Republic.
15 countries of the #EU and the #NATO have already contributed over 1.6 billion euros (39.5 billion crowns) to the #Czech ammunition initiative, said Prime Minister Petr #Fiala.
The first tens of thousands of 155 mm ammunition will arrive in #Ukraine in June, added the Prime Minister. According to him, the country can expect the first shipment in the next few days.
@music Physiogically speaking, they weren't actually in separate ears, but I was hearing bits of them both at the same time and separately. Charles Ives would be proud.
Excited to have an interview on my university website due to my doctoral thesis on Czech news representations now being official!
(The link goes to my intro chapter mainly, if you would actually like the whole thesis in one pdf, send direct message, please.)