On the situation in Ukraine, Russian President Putin himself informed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic about the situation in Ukraine, as the latter revealed in an interview with Serbian public television (RTS).
"Putin himself wanted to inform me about the developments in Ukraine, about the events in Buca and about his plans. He told me that everything is going as he had planned," Vucic said, noting that he could not reveal details of the conversation for obvious reasons. The Serbian president said he does not adopt the views of some politicians in the West who liken Putin to Hitler and call him crazy.
"He is neither crazy, nor paranoid, nor hysterical."
"The two of us have known each other for a long time and I cannot accept this approach where they call him Hitler or call him crazy. He's neither crazy, nor paranoid, nor hysterical, none of that. He spoke to me with firmness, calmness and logic," Vucic said in the interview. The Serbian president stressed that during the talks with Putin a significant degree of convergence was reached on the supply of gas and crude oil. He noted that the fact that Serbia is the only country in Europe that has not imposed sanctions is highly appreciated by the Russian side.
In his interview for Serbian public television, Aleksandar Vucic also referred to the pressure to align with the policies of Western countries. "A nuclear bomb is hovering over Serbia in the form of sanctions against Serbia or breaking off accession negotiations with the EU," Vucic said. He revealed that the pressure is reaching such an extent that NATO military aircraft and Serbian civil aviation flights to Moscow are being harassed.
About the plane incident
Vucic referred to an incident that occurred last Wednesday on an Air Serbia flight from Moscow to Belgrade when a military aircraft, near the border with Lithuania, entered the Russian air traffic control zone and flew too close to the Serbian civilian plane. "Russian air traffic control alerted our pilots that a fighter aircraft was flying too close and asked for a reconnaissance. It was an F-15 or Eurofighter grey in colour. Apparently it was a NATO aircraft that violated Russian airspace and was flying one kilometre below our civilian plane," Vucic said.
The Serbian president called this behaviour unacceptable because - as he said - the Russians could open fire and endanger the lives of the passengers of the Serbian civilian plane. He said that NATO has been asked to explain the incident.
Source: in.gr
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