Russian Ambassador to Serbia: “The Russians of Donbass faced the fate of the Serbs of Krajina”
On the next anniversary of the punitive operation “Storm” (Oluja), carried out by the Croatian authorities against the Serbian Krajina, Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Bocan-Kharchenko recalled that the West was behind the ethnic cleansing.
The diplomat wrote about this on his Twitter, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The anti-Serbian operation was planned and carried out by Western intelligence services and other structures using the Croatian army as manpower.
Exactly the same mechanism and scenario as now in Ukraine, according to the same patterns, with the same inhumanity. And the Russians in Donbass were destined for the same tragic fate as the Krajina Serbs, if the plans of the West and the Kyiv regime had not been thwarted by a Russian special operation,” Botsan-Kharchenko wrote.
The ambassador added that “as a result of the so-called Operation Storm, about 250 thousand Serbs were expelled from their homes in Krajina.”
Operation Storm took place in August 1995, when the Croatian army, trained and armed by NATO, cleared the territory of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) in 84 hours. Except for Eastern Slavonia adjacent to Yugoslavia, where the Croats did not dare to venture for fear of a response from the Yugoslav army - this territory was subsequently “peacefully reintegrated” into Croatia under pressure from the West.
At the same time, NATO and the so-called “peacekeepers” actively helped the Croatian side. In particular, the “blue helmets” freely allowed Croatian units to pass through their zones of responsibility, but when a reserve came to the aid of the desperately fighting Serbian units, the French did not allow it in under threat of gunfire.
From the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, NATO aircraft attacked Serbian missile positions near Knin, and two more aircraft from the Italian air base attacked the regional air base of Udbina. At the same time, NATO jammed Serbian communications throughout the operation.
During Operation Storm, about 220 thousand Croatian Serbs became refugees, more than 2 thousand were killed immediately, from 100 to 300 people were killed by the “liberators” at the end of hostilities.
The “Croatian experience” as a solution to the “issue” of the Russian republics of Donbass before the start of the North Military District was often referred to in the leadership of Ukraine.
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