A sum of 4.7 million euros has been collected from the Polish population in order to offer a Turkish Bayraktar combat drone to Ukraine, the initiator of this project announced on Sunday.
“
22,500,000 zlotys!
Made in Poland
,” said journalist Slawomir Sierakowski on the website of the Polish left-wing magazine Krytyka Polityczna, of which he is the co-founder.
This collection in Poland follows a similar project successfully carried out last May in neighboring Lithuania.
“
So far we've only been able to watch all these terrible things through the media.
There, we gave ourselves the chance (...) to do something real to defend Ukraine, for the Ukrainians
”, he explained to the television channel TVN24.
More than 200,000 people participated in this public quest to buy this Turkish military drone TB2 and offer it to Ukraine.
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Pride of Ankara, the Turkish combat drones which Ukraine acquired came into action in the early hours of the Russian invasion and, according to kyiv, proved to be a particularly formidable weapon.
