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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands has handed implicit a doorbell made partially from Russian weapons to a religion successful the Czech Republic successful a motion of solidarity with Ukraine
PRAGUE -- Queen Maxima of the Netherlands handed implicit a doorbell made partially from Russian weapons to a religion successful the Czech Republic connected Thursday successful a motion of solidarity with Ukraine.
Known arsenic the Bell of Freedom, it was manufactured by the Dutch Royal Eijsbouts doorbell foundry that utilized fragments of artillery shells and different weapons fired by Russia against Ukraine.
“This doorbell has a batch of symbolism successful it and it’s a precise peculiar task for us,” the proprietor of the doorbell foundry, Joost Eijsbouts, told the Czech nationalist radio. “To usage worldly designed for unit and crook it into thing peaceful is simply a bully idea.”
The doorbell volition beryllium installed successful the operation of the Church of the Holy Saviour successful Prague, successful spot of 1 of the archetypal bells that were seized by the Austro-Hungarian service and turned into weapons during World War I.
The Czech Republic and the Netherlands enactment Ukraine successful its combat against Russian troops.
The ceremonial astatine the church, attended by Czech President Petr Pavel and his woman Eva, was meant to beryllium 1 of the highlights of the Dutch royal couple's enactment successful Prague. But King Willem-Alexander had to chopped abbreviated the travel and returned location precocious Wednesday owed to the illness of the Dutch government.
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