The OSCE, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, is an international organisation bringing together states of Europe, North America and Asia, which deals with questions of security and co-operation on the European continent. Meetings of member-state delegations are held regularly at the forum in Vienna.[1]
Talks in Vienna in October 2026
On 7 October 2026 the head of the Russian delegation, Yulia Zhdanova, spoke at the OSCE forum in Vienna. According to the Russian state agency TASS, at this meeting she named several countries, among them Czechia, as states taking part in the war in Ukraine through deliveries of drones to the Ukrainian army.[1][2][3][4]
According to TASS, Zhdanova stated that the so-called accomplices supplying drones to the Ukrainian army include, besides Czechia, Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy, which, in her words, “de facto also take part in the Ukrainian conflict”.[2] Before that she named companies in Britain and Poland where, according to her, drones used in the attack on the Saint Petersburg region and on Gelendzhik in southern Russia were made.[1]
According to her, the location of drone production in those countries was published by the Russian Ministry of Defence, on whose findings Russia is, in her words, to continue to focus.[1]
Chronology
- — The head of the Russian delegation at the OSCE forum in Vienna, Yulia Zhdanova, named Czechia as an accomplice in the war in Ukraine because of drone deliveries to the Ukrainian army. → ČTK / České noviny Novinky.cz
Sources
- ČTK / České noviny — 7 October 2026
- Novinky.cz — 7 October 2026
- FORUM 24 — 7 October 2026
- iDNES.cz — 7 October 2026