Zakharova: "Vučić says one thing in Moscow, but another in other countries"

"We hear some statements when he is in Moscow, and other statements when he gives interviews from other geographical points," she said Maria Zakharova for Raša, the Balkans.

She commented on Aleksandar Vučić's statement that buyers of ammunition produced in Serbia can do whatever they want with it.

"Allow me to remind you that our army has repeatedly come to the aid of the friendly Serbian people, historically and in modern times," she said. "I refuse to even consider not only such a possibility, but in general, the topic, that Russian soldiers, who historically gave their hearts, in every sense of the word, gave their lives or showed their love and loyalty to their Serbian brothers - to be defeated or killed by Serbian weapons, ammunition, grenades."

Press Office of the Foreign Intelligence Service Russian Federation (SVR) has already reported that Serbian defense companies, contrary to the "neutrality" declared by official Belgrade, continue to supply Kyiv with ammunition. Russia has been appealing for this since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, but now Vučić and his attitude towards "friends from Russia" are especially apostrophized, especially at the moment when it needs to be resolved situation with NIS and finalize the gas agreement for the following years.

As a cover for anti-Russian activities, a simple scheme with fake certificates of the end user and intermediary countries is used, they explained earlier.

Promises, promises

Maria Zakharova added that Russia has repeatedly received statements from the Serbian leadership, including those at the highest level, that the export of ammunition produced in Serbia is under strict control, and that it will not be delivered to Ukraine so that Kiev would not use it against our soldiers. She stated that Moscow assumes that Belgrade will strictly adhere to its promises.

"I don't know, maybe the media misreported something, but then there should be some clarification from the competent press office, the press office of the President of Serbia, which should clarify whether everything was quoted correctly in this interview," said the Russian official. "You know, there is an expression that I don't know how you will translate into Serbian: 'promises given to us'. But I don't want to use the pronoun 'to us'. These promises were not given only to certain people, to a certain country. They were given by the president of an independent, sovereign state elected by the people. They were not addressed to anyone in particular, but declared as the position of a legally elected president who expresses the will of his people."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently stated that he understands that unprecedented pressure is being exerted on Serbia, but that Russia would not want to see Serbian ammunition being fired at Russian soldiers.