Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has branded as «nonsense» the incessant rounds of sanctions passed internationally against Russia and its top leaders, including President Vladimir Putin, in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
«The plan cannot be to take Putin out. The plan cannot be sanctions. This is nonsense. We will achieve nothing,» said Milanovic, who recalled that sanctions also failed to break former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, alluding to his involvement in the Balkan war.
On the other hand, the Croatian head of state regretted that both the bloc formed by the United States and the Atlantic Alliance, as well as the Russian bloc, are «waging a proxy war» against each other «through Ukraine», reports the portal Total Croatia News.
«Washington and NATO are waging a proxy war against Russia through Ukraine. And vice versa. However, if you don’t have the ultimate goal, if you don’t have a plan, it ends up like Afghanistan,» Milanovic reproached, recalling the rise of the Taliban to the Afghan government coinciding with the departure of US troops.
Milanovic has repeatedly spoken out against the participation of Croatian military in the war in Ukraine, a decision that has also recently been shared by the Croatian Parliament itself, which voted against collaborating with the European Union Military Assistance Mission in Ukraine (EUMAM).
However, this position is not shared by the head of government, Andrej Plenkovic, who, in statements to French media, has regretted that the Parliament’s decision is a «historically wrong choice».
Milanovic has come out against these words to reproach Plenkovic for having «spat at Croatian representatives and Croatian citizens in French media.» «Never insult democratic representatives of your citizens in foreign media,» he has warned.
Thus, the head of state has shared the decision taken by the Croatian Parliament not to participate in EUMAM, as he considers the legality of this mission to be «legally very doubtful» as it could go against the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
