Sarajevo ditched its military helicopters, preferring Ukraine and Lithuania to Russia
Deputy Chairman of the Joint Commission on Defense and Security of the BiH Parliament, Dusanka Majkic, spoke out against the Bosniak elite’s persecution of the Serbian member of the Presidium of BiH, Milorad Dodik, who did not allow the use of emergency helicopters of the country’s armed forces to extinguish fires.
This was reported by RTRS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Majkić wondered how it is possible that the other two members of the Presidium – Zeljko Komsic and Šefik Dzaferović, who accuse Milorad Dodik, do not know that the helicopters of the Armed Forces of BiH cannot be used to extinguish fires due to obsolescence and inadequate maintenance, which puts lives at risk crew members.
She noted that the BiH Armed Forces helicopters are between 30 and 50 years old and that they are not regularly maintained. According to the deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Commission, about 10 million convertible Bosnian marks were paid to a certain Ukrainian company for the last major overhaul of helicopters, but they were returned in a much worse technical condition than before this “overhaul.”
Technical documentation on the high-quality acceptance of helicopters “repaired” in Ukraine, she added, due to a large number of objections from military personnel, was thrown into Lake Bogdanich.
Dushanka Majkic
Majkic recalled that the BiH Armed Forces already had helicopter crashes in 2006 and 2012, but fortunately no one died then.
“Real assistance in extinguishing the fire on the territory of the Federation (Bosniak-Croatian) BiH was provided by the Republika Srpska Helicopter Service, although we cannot forget how much criticism followed when the Republika Srpska purchased new helicopters from Russia, which, as we now see, fulfilled their mission , - noted the Deputy Chairman of the Joint Commission on Defense and Security. – I want to point out the irresponsibility of the Ministry of Defense and the Council of Ministers when it came to the repair of helicopters of the Armed Forces, since the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of Russia itself sent a proposal to the authorities of BiH, having learned that the Ministry of Defense was announcing a tender for the overhaul of MI-8 helicopters .
Then the Russians could not understand how they, as the world leader in the construction and production of these helicopters, were excluded from the tender, and they were preferred to the Lithuanian company Helisota, which does not have a license for major overhauls and is not able to guarantee the safe operation of helicopters after repairs! "
Let us recall that previously the mayor of Bosnjak Jablanica Damir Shabanovich initiated initiation of a criminal case against Milorad Dodik for not sending army helicopters to extinguish fires.
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