Go to mediabankPresident of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić . File photoBELGRADE, Oct 20Belgrade will not support sanctions against Russia until there is an existential threat to Serbia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said. we determined by the decisions of the Security Council. If we find ourselves in such a situation, I see and understand that we face a life-threatening threat, then I will turn to the citizens of Serbia, I will say that we must do this and that. You ask me if this moment has come, I think not. I am proud that we have been pursuing an independent policy for 240 days,» Vučić said on TV Prva.The Serbian government has banned the export of natural gas «We don't owe them anything, remember what they did in 2015 (Russia's veto on the resolution on the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the UN Security Council — ed.) and constantly and everywhere remind us of this, they protect our territorial integrity in the UN Security Council together with the PRC… But first of all, we must respect ourselves, I am not looking for an excuse to impose sanctions, I can find five million reasons, but I am looking for a moral and legally impeccable position for the country that I love most and which I lead in choice of citizens,» the Serbian leader noted. He also recalled that on Thursday Belgrade officially marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation from the Nazi invaders by the Red Army and Yugoslav partisans. The date of the liberation of Serbia from the Nazis in World War II is associated with the end of the Belgrade operation 20 October 1944. Soldiers of the Soviet Second and Third Ukrainian Fronts under the command of Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin participated in the battles for the capital of Yugoslavia, units of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito made their way towards them. army. The Eternal Flame burns in it, there are monuments to Soviet and Yugoslav soldiers, mass graves are located. According to post-war estimates by the Yugoslav authorities, over 7,000 Red Army soldiers were buried in the country. Yugoslavia's participation in World War II, according to official data in 1945, cost over 1.7 million human lives. hinders» the West
