A sum of 4.7 million euros has been raised from the Polish population to offer a Turkish Bayraktar combat drone to Ukraine, the initiator of this project announced on Sunday.
“22,500,000 zlotys (4,744,000 euros)! Made in Poland,” journalist Slawomir Sierakowski greeted on the website of the left-wing Polish magazine Krytyka Polityczna, of which he is a co-founder.
This collection in Poland follows a similar project successfully carried out last May in neighboring Lithuania.
200,000 attendees
“Until now, we have only been able to see all these terrible things through the media. There we gave ourselves the opportunity (…) 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 search to buy this TB2 Turkish military drone and offer it to Ukraine.
The pride of Ankara, the Turkish combat drones Ukraine acquired saw action in the first hours of the Russian invasion and, according to Kyiv, proved to be a particularly formidable weapon.
Source: BFM TV
