The EU warned Member States or accession candidates against sending representatives to Moscow for the World War II. Three European politicians still traveled to Putin's parade – with a very own agenda.
The EU foreign commissioner Kaja Kallas found clear words: The EU Commission and most member states reject that EU members or EU accession candidates take part in Putin's victory parade in Moscow, according to Kallas.
“Any participation is not taken lightly from the European side, because you have to consider that Russia is a full war in Europe,” said Kallas. In the propaganda of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, victory over the fascism of Hitler-Germany is often abused to justify his own war of aggression against Ukraine.
Three Heads of government travel from Europe
However, it did not name any consequences. Kallas encouraged the EU countries to send their representatives to the alternative event in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The four Putin-savvy heads in Europe behaved differently.
While Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not attend the Russian or the Ukrainian celebrations, the other three traveled to Moscow: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico – as the only EU representative, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and the President of the Serbian -dominated country of Bosnia and Herzegowina, Milorad Dodik.
Milorad Dodik was also a guest in Moscow. The Serb leader has operated the spin -off of the Republika Srpska from the Bosnian state for years. Only a month ago, Germany imposed an entry ban against him.
“I just go to the celebrations”
The Slovak Prime Minister Fico was defiant: “I would recommend Ms. Kallas and the others to take care of more important things. I simply go to the celebrations of the 80th anniversary. Point. I have honor and respect a nation that played the decisive role in the elimination of Hitler, between 1941 to 1945 – a nation that suffered the most.”
Fico seems to be aware of one thing: At that time, the nation was the citizens of the Soviet Union, which also included the Ukrainians. On the Red Square in Moscow, however, it is a military parade of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And the Russian military has marched into Ukraine and leads a destructive war of attack.
Vucic gives interview in front of the walls of the Kremlin
Vucic, President of the EU candidate Serbia, apparently does not want to deal with it. Shortly after his arrival in Moscow, he faced the wall of the Kremlin and gave Serbian television an interview – an interview typical for him. In the event of criticism from an international side, Vucic likes to take the victim role and link it to the Serbian narrative that the country had been taken away from Kosovo.
Serbia's President stated: “It would be logical and normal to behave in good condition for us. Because they have done great injustice to the small country of Serbia by bombing it and taking Kosovo away, 14 percent of his territory. What else do you want from the little proud people of the Serbs that they kneel down?” Vucic criticized in the direction of the EU:
Now you have your interests and say: 'Hey, don't go to Moscow and don't talk to that and that.' And if we say they should not recognize the independence of Kosovo, they say that that is a closed thing. We should not look into the past, but into the future.
Vucic also dazzles a lot-like the crimes of the Serbs in the Kosovo war and previously in the Bosnia War, which ensured that NATO bombed intervention and Serbia.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin also met Serbia's Aleksander Vucic.
Some EU countries refused Vucic to be fluid rights
Vucic still told how difficult it was for him to fly from Serbia to Moscow, because some EU countries did not want to play along and denied him the flood rights.
“Poland does not release any corridors to fly over Belarus. So it was clear that we had to fly over Lithuania, and they didn't allow them to be allowed. Then we had flirt right from Germany and Sweden, but Latvia banned it and then we flew through Bulgaria, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia.”
The EU candidate Serbia is also involved in the organization of the military parade in Moscow for the first time and also had a Serbian military unit marched there.
