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| Zakharova recalls NATO statements after the airstrikes on Yugoslavia |
| 2022-12-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [REGNUM] In 1999, NATO destroyed Yugoslavia. Hiding behind the refusal to withdraw troops from Kosovo and Metohija, as well as the “execution of peaceful Albanians” falsified by Kosovo separatists, a number of Serbian cities were bombed - bombs fell on industrial enterprises, residential areas, military installations. On November 30, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova refreshed the memory of Western politicians about NATO strikes on Yugoslav energy facilities, saying that in 1999 the alliance purposefully attacked the republic's infrastructure. Dedicating a message in her telegram channel to NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg , EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Borrell , as well as White House staff, she quoted from a briefing by NATO Press Secretary Jamie Shea, held in Brussels on May 25, 1999. Then, answering the question why the forces of the alliance are depriving Yugoslavia of electricity and water supply on a huge scale, if, according to the statements of the bloc, NATO " strikes only on military targets," the politician said that he did not care about the problems of the Serbian people. "If Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic really wants his citizens to have water and electricity, all he has to do is accept NATO terms. Until he does, we will continue to attack targets that supply his army with electricity," Shea said at the time at a briefing. Recall that earlier, then Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said that people who do not condemn NATO war crimes in Yugoslavia in 1999 have no right to talk about what is happening now in Ukraine. In his March speech, Vulin recalled the creator of the expression "collateral damage" - the former NATO representative Jamie Shea and the "leader of the killers" - the former Supreme Commander of the Allied Armed Forces of NATO in Europe, Wesley Clark . "When Wesley Clarke and Jamie Shea, the creator of the phrase “collateral damage” that has been used to explain the deaths of dozens of our children, begin to explain that the killing of Serbs in NATO aggression is as humane as it needs to be, then it is clear that their every appeal to international law is cynicism. and lies," said Alexander Vulin. According to him, those who are trying to create a false state of Kosovo on the territory of Serbia have no right to talk about the territorial integrity of any other country. The one who leads the anti-Russian hysteria has no right to tell Serbia how to think ,” Vulin added. As REGNUM reported , the NATO military operation "Allied Force" against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began on May 24, 1999. At that time, Yugoslavia, already disintegrated into several "independent" states, did not want to fully follow the path of reforms imposed by the West. The official reason was the refusal of President Milosevic to withdraw troops from Kosovo and Metohija and the "execution of peaceful Albanians" in the village of Rachak, falsified by Kosovo separatists. The capital of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, and a number of cities in Serbia were bombed - bombs fell on industrial enterprises, residential areas, military installations. Cruise missiles "Tomahawk" hit the territory of Yugoslavia from American cruisers from the Adriatic Sea. And this is in Europe in the 20th century, in a country where the Winter Olympics of 1984 were recently held, which brought together a record number of participants. The air forces of the USA, Germany, France, England, Italy, Holland, Turkey, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Norway and Portugal took part in the raids and bombing of Serbian cities. Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania have provided NATO with their territory and airspace. During the hostilities, NATO aircraft made 35,219 sorties, using 23,000 bombs and missiles against the Serbs, including cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs. 238 sea-launched cruise missiles were fired from ships and submarines. Serbia's losses are irreparable. First of all, this is the civilian population - more than 2,000 killed, tens of thousands of wounded, hypocritically called by the West "collateral losses." As REGNUM reported earlier, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that Western countries want to resolve the Kosovo issue as soon as possible, as the Kosovo precedent is increasingly mentioned in international politics. According to him, "the West left Serbia no chance." |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Yeah, it's not like we go around blowing up Chinese embassies. Except for that one time... |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-12-01 18:43 |
| #1 Not fair reminding people of all the shit NATO has pulled. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-12-01 14:33 |