Several of Serbia's deals with the Emirates were declared "deals of the century" and were harmful to Serbia, while the real earnings - in the trade in arms and military equipment - were mostly kept silent.
Dutch arms trade researcher Frank Slijper tells "Vreme" how Serbian weapons end up in Ukraine through shady resellers like Slobodan Tešić and Marko Morales.
It is no wonder that last year Ukraine became the largest importer of weapons in the world, as it is now written in a new study by the SIPRI Institute. The United States is by far the world's largest arms exporter, and France has overtaken Russia in second place
Serbia shares third place with Italy in the list of European countries in terms of criminal trends from 2021 to 2023, the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) announced.
"According to Chekhov's, the gun that is hung on the wall at the beginning of the play will go off until the end." That is, the weapon that is in the possession of an individual will be used for what it is already being used for.
The crash of the Ukrainian "Antonov" in Greece, which flew from Niš to Jordan, raised several topics in Serbia: who was transporting the cargo, for whom, which company was the intermediary in the business, with whom it was connected, and whether the cargo was really a school weapons? And in particular, can you trust the Minister of Defense Nebojša Stefanović when he talks about the arms trade, bearing in mind the "Krušik" affair, in which he was deeply involved
