Defended Russians fleeing mobilization: They deserve asylum in the Czech Republic as well as Ukrainians
Czech President Milos Zeman ce opposed the government's decision not to receive Russians fleeing mobilization in the Czech Republic and today in an interview with Prima television warned that people fleeing Russia ce security risk and because it should to give them ce grant humanitarian visas.
- I think it should to give them give humanitarian visas to those people, as and the Ukrainian refugees. A person fleeing Russia is not a security risk. This mobilization includes a million people, so it is quite clear that it is cannon fodder with everything that goes with it, said the Czech president.
The head of diplomacy, Jan Lipevski, said a few days ago that the Czech Republic will not issue humanitarian visas to Russians fleeing mobilization because they do not meet the conditions, but Prime Minister Petr Fijala corrected his minister and said that Prague will treat potential Russian defectors. as and all other people seeking asylum in the Czech Republic.
– If someone comes, their request will be considered within the standard asylum procedure. There are no signals of an influx of Russians who would want to avoid government mobilization, the Czech prime minister said.
Czech Republic, as the first member of the European Union, on its own initiative suspended the issuance of visas for Russian citizens, a day after the Russian attack on Ukraine, on February 25. Later he extended it to Belarus, the only exception ce humanitarian visas, including those for exiled opponents of the authorities in those two countries.
In today's interview for TV Prima, Zeman also assessed that in Russia "regime change is possible, regardless of whether it will be initiated by businessmen or the army" and that the comparisons between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler ce unfair.
– The army has shown such great incompetence that it will not be the initiator of any change, the possibilities of businesses ce limited by sanctions, and I'm not talking about confiscating yachts. If there are political changes, I see that as pressure from business circles, Zeman said.