The head of the Czech Republic milo? Zeman appealed to the head of the Czech MIA Milan to Khovanets a petition to help return to the country of Ukraine 40 families of the Volhynian Czechs, said press Secretary of the head of the country Jiri Ovcacek.
" the President asked the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs, that he went to meet the requests of 40 families of the Volhynian Czechs to repatriate them to the Czech Republic due to the fact that the situation in Ukraine does not guarantee them a full life, " the spokesman said, according to ITAR-TASS. Czechs living in the Ukrainian Volhynia, back in March of this year asked the government of the Czech Republic with the request to build their return home, as feared further aggravation of the situation in Ukraine. But then the Czech authorities said compatriots refused, pointing out that the life and property of the Volhynian Czechs are not in danger. In September Zeman said that Ukraine is a civil war between 2 groups of Ukrainian Citizens ". The first Czech settlers appeared in Volhynia in the 2nd part of the nineteenth century. After 1989 in the Czech Republic from Ukraine has managed to get back to several thousands of the Volhynian Czechs.

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