Czechs have become the first citizens of a country to raise money through crowd-funding to buy a modernised Soviet-era T-72 tank that will soon be sent to the Ukrainian army to help it defend against Russia's invasion, a Ukrainian government official said on Monday.
The crowdfunding effort, run by the Ukrainian embassy in Prague, raised 33 million crowns ($1.31 million) as of Monday from 11,288 donors, the campaign website said.
"The Czech Republic became the first country where ordinary people bought a tank," Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhen Perebyinis said on Twitter.
