of Serbia Aleksandar Vucicgreat friend and admirer of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Viktor Orban, is under increasing pressure for refusing to join Western sanctions against Russia. These days he received from the China a sophisticated system rocket of air defense. reports from the weekend were confirmed by the government today Beijing, who hastened to speak about these military supplies in terms of normal bilateral “cooperation projects” “that have nothing to do with the current situation” in Ukraine. But the arrival of Chinese missiles an operation described as “secret” by the media has raised many concerns in Western law firms.
Serbia, Moscow’s key ally in the region, is the only European country that is massively selfsufficient armor out of Russia and China, with the two giants keen to increase their investments in the Serbian economy and other countries in the region. As part of the “Silk Road” project and its plans to invade the economic fabric of Europe, China’s Xi Jinping It makes major investments in Serbia, especially in the fields of industry, mining and metallurgy, as well as in infrastructure, especially in the project of a fast railway line between Belgrade and Budapest.
A large part of the weapons supplied to the Serbian army comes from Russia, among others: tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, sighting systems. And in recent months, Russia and Belarus have donated Belgrade six and four used MiG29 fighter jets, respectively, with which the Balkan country has strengthened its air defense device, to the further development of which the Chinese missile system will contribute. Perhaps conscious of growing Western concerns, but also to address likely delivery difficulties to Russia for international sanctions, President Vucic announced his intention to buy over the weekend French fighter Rafal and Turkish drones. In the past few hours, the Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic RadmanOn the fringes of the EU ministerial meeting in Luxembourg, he again described Belgrade’s behavior as “unsustainable” and the refusal to align its foreign policy with that of the EU by sticking to the sanctions against Moscow.
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