Double the Impact: Czech Activists to Send Two Flamingo Missiles to Ukraine

A Czech crowdfunding campaign has raised enough money to finance not one, but two Ukrainian-made long-range Flamingo missiles.

The Gaze reports this, referring to iDNES.

The initiative Darek pro Putina (“A Gift for Putin”) reached its initial target of 12.5 million Czech crowns – enough for one missile – in less than 48 hours. 

As for now, donations had surpassed 16 million crowns, with organizers now inviting followers on X to vote on how to allocate the additional millions crowns.

The Flamingo is a Ukrainian-designed long-range cruise missile, developed as a response to Western hesitation to supply Kyiv with comparable weapons. 

According to Darek pro Putina, the missile has a range of up to 3,000 kilometers, a speed of 900 km/h, and carries a warhead weighing up to 1,150 kilograms – capable of reaching targets as far as Moscow or St. Petersburg..

“We spoke with the Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point, and they told us they would double the contribution,” said project co-leader Martin Ondráček. “That means we can deliver two missiles instead of one.”

The missiles funded by Czech donors will be named DANA 1 and DANA 2, in honor of Dana Drábová, a prominent Czech nuclear physicist and head of the State Office for Nuclear Safety. Delivery details are expected to be confirmed next week.

This isn’t the first major success for A Gift for Putin. Earlier this year, the initiative delivered a refurbished Black Hawk UH-60 helicopter to Ukraine, following a 2023 fundraiser. 

The group is also known for purchasing a modernized T-72 tank, named Tomáš after Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and a RM-70 rocket launcher called Přemysl, donated for 50 million crowns.

As The Gaze previously reported, the Czech government has approved an extension of its humanitarian, stabilization, and economic assistance program for Ukraine, pledging to provide more than €40 million each year between 2026 and 2030.