Russian Intelligence: Serbia Supplies Ammunition to Ukraine Despite "Neutrality"!
Serbian defense companies, contrary to the "neutrality" declared by official Belgrade, are supplying ammunition to Kyiv, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service announced today, reports Sputnik International.
The concealment of anti-Russian actions is a simple scheme using fake end-user and intermediary country certificates, the agency explained.
– Among these intermediaries, NATO countries are most frequently mentioned, especially the Czech Republic, Poland, and Bulgaria. Recently, exotic options involving African countries have also been used for this purpose, the report states.
The largest Serbian companies, including Yugoimport SDPR, Zenitprom, Krušik, Sofag, Rejer DTI, and Prvi Partizan, are involved in military shipments to Kyiv, the foreign intelligence service said.
– The contribution of Serbian defense workers to the war initiated by the West, whose desired outcome for Europe is the "strategic defeat" of Russia, is estimated at hundreds of thousands of shells for MLRS and howitzers, as well as a million rounds of small arms ammunition. Such shipments can hardly be justified on "humanitarian" grounds. They have one obvious purpose — to kill and wound Russian military personnel and civilians – the report states, according to a Russian news portal.
As a reminder, Radio Free Europe reported last year that the routes by which weapons and ammunition from Serbia end up in the hands of the Ukrainian army are unknown even to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
– SIPRI conducts research based on publicly available sources, and the routes through which weapons (specifically ammunition) from Serbia might end up in Ukraine are extremely non-transparent – said Katarina Đokić, a SIPRI researcher, to RFE.
This issue was reopened after the then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, James O’Brien, stated on July 8 that Serbia, “by making its weapons available, is helping Ukraine defend a fundamental principle of international law.”
The Financial Times published estimates on June 22 last year that Serbia had indirectly exported ammunition to Ukraine through other countries since the beginning of Russia’s invasion, worth 800 million euros.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at the time confirmed that the information on the value of the ammunition was mostly accurate, presenting the sale as a business opportunity, according to the British daily.
– This is part of our economic revival and important for us. Yes, we are exporting our ammunition.
Source: Direktno.rs
