Czechia has contracted to purchase 180,000 shells for further transfer to Ukraine. They also plan to contract an additional 300,000 ammunition units, according to Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala. According to Fiala, the situation in Ukraine is critical. One of the reasons is that Ukrainian defenders are running out of ammunition, forcing them to make difficult decisions every day. “This makes it extremely hard to hold their lines — the very lines that will decide the security and future of the whole of Europe,” he said. He also noted that the Czech initiative on shells for Ukraine succeeds bec…