View of Zagreb, CroatiaBELGRADE, Jan 30Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said on RTL that Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic behaves like an «agent of Ukraine» and a «pawn» that goes where it doesn't belong, pointing to the Prime Minister's working visit to Kiev in December. President Milanovic on January 25 said that Croatia, in the event of an escalation in Ukraine, would withdraw its military from NATO forces in Eastern Europe. «This has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia, it has to do with the dynamics of American domestic politics,» he said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called these words unacceptable, stated that they run counter to the official position of the country, and demanded a refutation. In the same year, Milanovich got into the database of the scandalous Ukrainian resource «Peacemaker» as an «anti-Ukrainian propagandist.» Prime Minister Plenkovic apologized to Kiev for the President's words and called them nonsense. He clarified that the Croatian contingent had previously returned from Poland as planned.
"Plenkovich let him apologize. He behaves like a Ukrainian agent. And I — as the President of Croatia. This is a huge difference. I didn't get along with the Russians. I have never been there on a working visit, I have never had coffee with the Russian ambassador", — said the Croatian president.
“I’m not going to apologize. The head of government is an ordinary pawn who goes where she doesn’t belong. He did this during the time of (ex-president of Croatia) Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who tried when the Ukrainian government was not yet so militaristically minded, which is unreasonable, this is not Serbia, but Russia on the other side. So, Grabar-Kitarovic tried to build something with the Russian Federation in a diplomatic tone, and Plenkovic — on the contrary, «Milanovic emphasized.
The US is dissatisfied with Ukraine's stance on the «invasion,» the media reported. According to the president, not only he, but also the Croatian government ended up on the Peacemaker's page. «Because it (the government) has too close relations with the Soviet Union, oh God, with Russia Recently there was also (Foreign Minister Gordan) Grlich-Radman, who introduces himself everywhere as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and says that I do not represent the state, but he does. and invited (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to Croatia,» Milanovic said and added that he expects the Ukrainian government to «put the extremist website in order.» Croatian Prime Minister Andrey Plenkovic visited Kiev in December, where he and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed joint declaration on the European perspective of Ukraine. The document defines the priority areas of cooperation between Ukraine and Croatia as part of the state's strategic course towards gaining full membership in the European Union. Croatian citizens critically and sarcastically commented on the Prime Minister's visit on the government's social networks, and the country's President Zoran Milanovic called the trip «quackery» amid tensions on the borders of Ukraine. /> In Ukraine, a hypothetical war with Russia was called «liberation»