The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia said that the country is being punished with a hybrid war

Alexander Vulin. File photoBELGRADE, Apr 19A hybrid war is being waged against Serbia because the country does not support Western sanctions against Russia, Serbian Interior Minister Alexander Vulin said. «A hybrid war is being waged against Serbia because it pursues an independent policy and because we have not imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation. This is how we are being punished. We have information about who is behind these attacks,» the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs quoted Vulin as saying. Refusal to impose sanctions against Russia is expensive for Serbia, Vučić said On the eve, several shopping centers in Serbia received signals about the threat of a terrorist attack, one of the largest shopping centers was evacuated. Anti-sabotage inspection did not find explosives. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the messages came from the Protonmail mail service, which is based in Switzerland, and from «it previously several times sent threats to the Belgrade Nikola Tesla International Airport and Air Serbia. According to operational data, the messages were sent from one EU country and from Ukraine. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the day before that signals about explosive devices in Air Serbia aircraft on the route to Russia are regularly sent by foreign intelligence services from the territory of Ukraine and one EU state. The West is twisting Serbia's arms because of cooperation with Russia, the ambassador said