Slovak citizens have shown their disagreement with Prime Minister Robert Fico's policies by raising over €3 million ($3.2 million) for ammunition for the Ukrainian army, the BBC reported on April 22.
Over 47,000 Slovaks contributed to the charity drive.
The amount and number of donations exceeded expectations, with Slovaks raising over a million euros ($1.07 million) within the first two days.
The total reached €2.95 million ($3.15 million) on the morning of April 22.
Otto Shymko, a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor who participated in the Slovak uprising against the Nazis in 1994, helped to initiate the campaign.
"We have to drive Putin out of Ukraine," he said.
"We have to defeat him."
The funds will purchase ammunition for Ukraine as part of a Czech initiative involving around 20 countries. Citizens transfer the money directly to the Czech government.
Slovakia is a democratic country and citizens have every right to take such actions, Slovakia's Defense Minister Robert Kaliňák said about the fundraising effort.
The Foreign Ministries of Slovakia and Hungary announced on March 21, that they would not participate in the Czech initiative to purchase 800,000 artillery shells for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
