Vučić concerned about delivering Ka-32 helicopters from Russia to Serbia

Ka-32 fire and rescue helicopter. File photoBELGRADE, June 8 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he was concerned about whether Western restrictive measures would allow Ka-32 helicopters to be delivered to Serbia from Russia to extinguish fires. Macedonia at a meeting with the prime ministers of North Macedonia, Albania and — as observers — the heads of the cabinets of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of an initiative to create a cross-border economic «mini-Schengen» — a single regional market for goods, services and labor, renamed Open Balkan. «Now I'm waiting to find out how we will deliver the helicopters that we buy to fight fires. These are the best helicopters in the world. Whether they will let us import them or not, God knows,» Vučić told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting in the city of Ohrid.Earlier he reported that Belgrade was expecting fire-fighting helicopters (two Ka-32s in the Russian Federation — ed.), as a hot summer was expected, and the Serbs «are ready at any moment to help our Albanian and Macedonian our friends are much more efficient than they could have been last year.» In January, Vucic confirmed plans to buy two Ka-32 helicopters from the Russian Federation, which he called «the best helicopters for fighting fires.» Vučić said he was not surprised by the obstacles to Lavrov's visit