{"id":7611,"date":"2025-11-07T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:40:22","slug":"ukrainian-flag-taken-down-from-czech-parliament-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/ukrainian-flag-taken-down-from-czech-parliament-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian flag taken down from Czech parliament (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new speaker says Prague will now focus on the country\u2019s national interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

The newly elected speaker of the Czech parliament has posted a video showing the Ukrainian flag being taken down from the building, while declaring that Prague would put its national interests first.<\/p>\n

Tomio Okamura, the leader of the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, released the clip on Thursday. “Czech Republic first,”<\/em> he said as the flag was lowered. “Keep your fingers crossed for us.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The move came a day after Okamura’s election as speaker and marks a symbolic end to the previous government’s staunchly pro-Ukraine stance. His SPD party is a junior coalition partner to Andrej Babis’ right-wing ANO movement, which won last month’s general election on a platform opposing Brussels’ directives, including continued military aid to Ukraine. The new ruling bloc, which also includes the Motorists party, plans to form a government by mid-December.<\/p>\n

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Pr\u00e1v\u011b jsem nechal sundat ukrajinskou vlajku z budovy Poslaneck\u00e9 sn\u011bmovny pic.twitter.com\/1dcxVrbAQs<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tomio Okamura (@tomio_cz) November 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Ukrainian flag was first raised above the Czech parliament in 2022 as a gesture of solidarity for Kiev’s in its conflict with Russia. Members of three pro-Ukraine opposition parties responded to Okamura’s order by displaying Ukrainian flags from their parliamentary offices in protest.<\/p>\n

Kiev’s ambassador to Prague, Vasili Zvarich, expressed gratitude, claiming that “more Ukrainian flags are showing up”<\/em> in the capital and that Russians “fear”<\/em> the national symbol.<\/p>\n

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V ODS jsme se rozhodli urychlen\u011b napravit prvn\u00ed krok nov\u00e9ho p\u0159edsedy Poslaneck\u00e9 sn\u011bmovny Tomia Okamury.<\/p>\n

Ukrajinsk\u00e1 vlajka je ve Sn\u011bmovn\u011b zp\u011bt a vis\u00ed z oken na\u0161eho poslaneck\u00e9ho klubu. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffb pic.twitter.com\/H2lSLJI72o<\/a><\/p>\n

— ODS (@ODScz) November 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Ukrainian government has made the public display of its national flag a key propaganda element. Kiev’s HUR military intelligence service carried out several high-risk infiltration missions in Crimea in 2023 for the apparent purpose of hoisting the blue-and-yellow banner, later acknowledging that the actions cost the lives of several operatives.<\/p>\n

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Currently, up to 10,000 Ukrainian troops are encircled on two fronts in Donbass, according to Moscow and media reports. Kiev has denied the claims. A recent HUR unit deployment near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) reportedly ended in disaster after commandos delivered by a US-supplied Black Hawk helicopter were killed shortly after landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new speaker says Prague will now focus on the country\u2019s national interests The newly elected speaker of the Czech parliament has posted a video showing the Ukrainian flag being taken down from the building, while declaring that Prague would put its national interests first. Tomio Okamura, the leader of…<\/p>\n

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