The beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine has been provoked since 2014, said Croatian President Zoran Milanovic. transmits newspaper Jutarnji list.
“From 2014 to 2022, we are watching someone provoke Russia with the intention of starting this war. She started. A year has passed, we are only now talking about tanks,” he said.
According to Milanovic, the Western tanks that the West will supply to Kyiv will be destroyed, just like the Soviet ones delivered before. The Croatian president believes that the conflict between the West and Moscow is getting deeper and the defeat of Russia, a nuclear power, could lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
Milanovic also said that after Western countries support the independence of Kosovo, Crimea will never be able to become Ukrainian again. According to him, “leading German generals” are also talking about this.
Earlier, at the end of December 2022, Milanovic named the current leadership of the EU is “the most incompetent” in history, which is not aware of the “account for the consequences of what they are doing and what happened before.” He also said that Ukraine is not an ally of the EU and it is cynical to grant it the status of a candidate for EU membership.
Russia’s special operation in Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it the protection of the inhabitants of Donbass, as well as the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as its goals. In response, Western countries imposed large-scale sanctions against Russia and began to provide military assistance to Ukraine.