Ordinary citizens from Slovakia and other countries have collected some $55,000 for Russian civilians displaced by the Ukrainian incursion
Social activists from Slovakia have donated over €52,000 to residents of Russia’s Kursk Region who were forced to abandon their homes due to Ukraine’s incursion in August.
The funds were formally handed over to representatives from Kursk during a ceremony in Moscow on Wednesday by the head of the Slovak village of Smilno, Vladimir Baran, and former deputy of the National Council of Slovakia, Anton Korba, who initiated the campaign earlier this year.
Baran, whose village has a population of just over 700, noted that the money was collected by ordinary people, including pensioners, not only from Slovakia but also from countries such as the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Australia.
The donation to Kursk is “just a small thank you to the Russian soldiers who liberated Europe during World War II,” he said, as…
