Press: Ministry of Interior planning to repatriate dozens of ethnic Czechs from Ukraine

The Czech Ministry of the Interior is planning to repatriate a group of ethnic Czechs from Ukraine, Lidové noviny reported on Monday. Officials are preparing a plan under which 30 to 50 Volhynia Czechs would be moved to the Czech Republic within a matter of weeks, the newspaper said. They are in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donets, which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists. President Miloš Zeman asked the minister of the interior, Milan Chovanec, to help the ethnic Czechs in October, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it would not aid their repatriation.

Author: Ian Willoughby