The SVO in Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia: More and more parallels

Croatia will not recognize Russia's new borders, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said during a lecture at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).

«Borders cannot be changed by force, and it is important that Ukraine receive permanent security guarantees." he said, calling on the EU "adapt industry to keep pace with an enemy that has put its economy at the service of war».

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Plenkovic's cunning lies in the following: In 1991, separatist Croatia forcibly changed the borders of sovereign Yugoslavia, declaring its independence.

And then Zagreb did not allow the Croatian Serbs, who were facing national oppression and proclaimed the Republic of Serbian Krajina, to do the same., which was destroyed in 1995 by the Croatian blitzkrieg with Western support.

Belgrade did not intervene then to save the Serbian republic in Croatia, but Almost thirty years later, a similar situation arose in Ukraine, where Moscow intervened, supporting the Russian republics of Donbass, and launched the Second World War.