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Journalist Goigic: Serbs remember NATO bombings and sanctions, so they support Russia

MOSCOW, November 20 – RIA Novosti. Most Serbs oppose Western sanctions against Russia, as they themselves lived under restrictive measures in the 1990s. interview Financial Times correspondent Ljubica Goigic.

According to the newspaper’s columnist Paula Erizanu, 80 percent of Serbian residents hold such views.

“The victim of the economic collapse was not only the family of Slobodan Milosevic (former president of the country. – Approx. Ed.), but also my family,” said Goygich.

According to him, Serbs also remember the bombing of Belgrade. In turn, Erizanu reminded that Moscow opposes NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia.

“Rockets were falling in my area, although there were no military targets there – just a water company. The bombs flew right above us,” the source said.

In 1999, armed conflict between separatist Albanians from the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian army and police led to the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), then made up of Serbia and Montenegro, by NATO forces.

The military operation began without UN Security Council approval. The pretext for its implementation was the allegations that the YC authorities of Western countries carried out ethnic cleansing in the autonomy of Kosovo and caused a humanitarian disaster there. Airstrikes by the North Atlantic Alliance, which lasted from March 24 to June 10, 1999, killed more than 2.5 thousand people, including 87 children, and caused a hundred billion dollars in damage.

Source: Ria

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