The Czech Republic is ready to accept Ukrainian refugees if tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalate, current centre-right Prime Minister Petr Fiala (Civic-Democratic Party) announced on 14 February.

The Prime Minister said: "We must be prepared for the escalation of the conflict and for a possible wave of migration. We have done everything to count on all possible scenarios, including pessimistic ones". The country's readiness to accept refugees was previously announced in January by Interior Minister Vít Rakušan, who said it was necessary to "address the situation together from the very first second".

The country's political leadership has been sceptical about accepting refugees since at least the beginning of the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, and has in the past refused to participate in any binding EU relocation mechanism. Czech public attitudes towards the admission of refugees have also long been negative, and in a survey carried out in the autumn of 2021, 52% of respondents opposed their admission. On the other hand, the number of respondents who believe that migration is an 'imminent threat' has dropped significantly since 2019, since the wave of fears about refugees that peaked in 2015-2016 subsided.