President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic BELGRADE, Apr 8Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, who had a telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, said the conversation was good and meaningful, and rejected all the derogatory epithets thrown at Putin in the West. Vučić, who won the April 3 presidential election, in a conversation with the President of the Russian Federation on Wednesday, he said that Serbia would continue friendly relations with Russia on the way to the EU. According to the administration of the Serbian leader, the parties stated that the current agreement with Gazprom for the supply of 6 million cubic meters of gas per day from Russia to Serbia at $270 per thousand cubic meters expires on May 31, and «it is necessary to start talking about the price, volumes as soon as possible and other conditions for the supply of this important energy source to Serbia.» «As for the conversation with President Putin, it was good, correct, the two of us have known each other for a long time. I cannot and will not accept the approach in which they call him Hitler or use new English expressions…when they want to say that he is crazy,» Vučić said on national television. «He is not insane, he does not behave hysterically, but, on the contrary, he was very stable, calmly and rationally talking to me. Another question is whether they agree you on every argument, but in what we talked about, we reached a significant degree of agreement, and this is very important for Serbia,» he added. According to Vučić, Putin informed him about the situation in Ukraine and that «everything is developing according to plan.» Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
