The Serbian president has continued to make statements in favor of Russia. Last night he even used a few minutes on the television he controls to talk about Kosovo, including the Russian state and an event that happened immediately after the war in Kosovo.
In 1999, Russian forces entered the Pristina Airport before the Alliance forces. They had blocked the Airport without any agreement with NATO, but after the talks that took place in Helsinki at the time, the Russians had agreed to unlock the airport, giving control to NATO.
It was this issue that Vucic raised after so many years.
“Whatever they say are the explanations and I have heard some official and unofficial ones, I have never fully understood the real reason why the Russians left the Republic of Kosovo. The fact that some others were in power at that time is not a sufficient reason, because I think there is always something more that has been agreed upon,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said last night.
The central topic of last night’s Hit Tweet show on TV Pink was the war in Ukraine, the attitude of Russia, America and their new presidential elections, but also the attitude of Serbia towards all this.
The guests discussed whether, if the US government changes it now, it will be better for Serbia, especially as the only country in Europe that has not imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation.
Vucic said that Serbia was not guided by Russia’s decisions from the past, but by its needs and policy.
“I don’t care if some former leaders of Russia imposed sanctions on us, because they were big enough, strong enough, weak enough,” he said.
He says that what he never received was an answer to the question of why the Russians left Kosovo.
“To be completely honest, I have never received a correct answer – why the Russians left Kosovo. So I never got a straight and precise answer. Is it important that such a great power would be justified to us, that they would explain to us”, he said last night.
The Russians, he continued, were welcomed by the Serbian people as liberators and then:
“It happened that they left.”
He has heard many explanations, official and unofficial, but he has not understood the real reason.
“The fact that some others were in power at the time is not a sufficient reason and there is always something more that is agreed upon. You get out of here and we’ll do something else. I am not able to see what was seen at that moment, although I have heard different stories.”
According to Vucic, all this is not a sufficient reason to impose sanctions on Russia.
“Is that a reason to impose sanctions on them – I don’t think so.” Should we have bad relations with Ukraine – also no…” he said afterwards.
