{"id":142385,"date":"2025-05-29T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142385\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:18:21","slug":"stab-in-the-back-russian-spy-agency-accuses-serbia-of-supplying-arms-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142385\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stab in the Back\u2019: Russian Spy Agency Accuses Serbia of Supplying Arms to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on Thursday accused<\/a> Serbia\u2019s defense industry of supplying weapons to Ukraine, despite Belgrade\u2019s official neutrality in the war.<\/p>\n

At least seven leading Serbian defense companies have sent hundreds of thousands of rockets and millions of small arms cartridges to Ukraine using \u201cfake\u201d end-user certificates, the SVR claimed in a statement on its website.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese shipments can hardly be justified on \u2018humanitarian grounds.\u2019 Their only obvious purpose is to kill and maim Russian servicemen and civilians,\u201d the SVR said, calling the alleged transfers \u201can attempt to stab Russia in the back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serbia exported 800 million euros ($908 million) worth of ammunition to Ukraine via third countries since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, the Financial Times reported<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, who visited Moscow this month for Russia\u2019s annual Victory Day military parade, has defended the exports as legal transactions fulfilled through intermediaries such as the United States, Spain and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have friends in Kyiv and in Moscow. These are our Slav brothers,\u201d Vu\u010di\u0107 told FT. \u201cI need to take care of my people, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s SVR also invoked shared Slavic heritage in its statement on Thursday, accusing Serbia\u2019s defense sector and unnamed \u201cpatrons\u201d of seeking to \u201cprofit from the blood of fraternal Slavic peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serbia maintains close ties with Moscow and depends heavily on Russian gas. Although it is a candidate for EU membership, it has not joined Western sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of Russians have relocated to Serbia since the February 2022 invasion and President Vladimir Putin\u2019s partial mobilization order.<\/p>\n

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