Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. File photoBELGRADE, Feb. 20 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's statement at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that NATO was trying to prevent the genocide in Kosovo by bombing Yugoslavia is superficial and unexpected, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the Tanjug news agency .The Russian leader at a meeting with the German Chancellor on February 15 reminded the United States of the destruction of Yugoslavia without any right to do so. Scholz later replied that NATO was «trying to prevent genocide.»
"The only thing I can say about this statement of his now is that it was superficial and unexpected… But there was no genocide in Kosovo and Metohija, no one has ever passed such a verdict, not a single political leader has said that something like this happened . Angela Merkel would say that they were trying to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, and there is a huge difference between these things,” Vučić told the agency.
“Now they are offended that Putin uses all their weaknesses, all the weakness of their arguments on aggression against Yugoslavia and sometimes repeats the arguments that they used. And they consciously and subconsciously cannot stand it,” the President of Serbia noted. According to him, the countries The West rather want to forget the case of Serbia, so when their representatives turn to Putin they say — «for the first time you will cause a war in Europe after the Second World War.» >Scholz decided that he was having a historical discussion with Putin about the term «genocide» «And what did they do here 23 years ago in Belgrade, what was the fault of (three-year-old who died in the NATO bombing — ed.) Milica Rakic? What a genocide, what a humanitarian catastrophe, what was little Sanya's fault in Varvarin? Why they bombed the bridge, which was not even on the highway, killed 11 people, children. Why they bombed the bridge in the Grdelich Gorge, the passenger train, and they knew it. Don't lie, tell us — we made the greatest mistake, we apologize for crimes. We still have to talk to them and are on the European path,» Vučić emphasized. He pointed out that at the same time, official Belgrade supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine and fundamentally supports international law. The plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Moscow are categorically deny and constantly state that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more war NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes.The people of Serbia will never want to go to NATO, said VučićAllegations that Russia is allegedly preparing provocations in Ukraine continue to come from the West, despite the return of Russian troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. At a meeting with Putin, the head of the RF Ministry of Defense reported that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said on Tuesday that the Southern and Western military districts of the Russian Federation began returning troops to their places of deployment. The withdrawal of the military to the places of deployment after the exercises is a common practice, there is no novelty, the press secretary of President Peskov told reporters earlier when asked whether the withdrawal of troops means a de-escalation of the situation around Ukraine. Russia has also repeatedly emphasized that it is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine and a subject the Minsk agreements on the settlement. In 1999, an armed confrontation between Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army and the army and police of Serbia led to the bombing of Yugoslavia (at that time consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) by NATO forces. The victims of NATO aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were mostly civilians. For 78 days of air strikes, according to various sources, 2.5-3.5 thousand people died, including 89 children. 12.5 thousand people were injured. This included 1,031 military and police deaths and more than 6,000 wounded. countriesPosted by: Nikita Stoma