The intelligence general explained why Russia did not save Serbia in 1999
Russia did not defend Yugoslavia in 1999 only because President Slobodan Milosevic did not resist NATO aggression and surrendered without a fight.
Lieutenant General of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Leonid Reshetnikov said this on air on the Tsargrad TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In a sense, indeed, Yeltsin and his entourage did not want to actively interfere in this matter (NATO aggression against Serbia - editor's note).
Although there were other forces in the same leadership, especially among our military, who really wanted to help.
But it all came down to the fact that Slobodan Milosevic did not want to fight.
But we cannot fight for others. And it all worked out like this:
“Let’s start, and you will save us.”
“Well, then we’ll die.”
“Do you want us to die?”
If you are attacked, then you must resist. The First World War - you resisted, and the sovereign declared war. Because you resisted, fought, killed thousands, tens of thousands of people, saved Serbia.
So Russia entered the First World War. You have now erected a monument to Nicholas II in the center of Belgrade, everything is correct.
But here you did not resist. You were waiting, you wanted us to start shooting. The order of things had to be different, as in the First World War.
I only know one thing: if the Serbs had resisted, we would have provided them with maximum support. Both military-technical and special. I am 99% sure of this,” the general emphasized.
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