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CROATIA’S President Zoran Milanovic has slammed the US and its allies for “waging an indirect war against Russia through Ukraine.”
He also criticised the strategy of imposing anti-Russian sanctions, stressing the nonsense and lack of an obvious ultimate goal for the restrictions.
Mr Milanovic said this is a favourite technique of Washington, applied to any geopolitical upheaval.
“And what are we supposed to be? Slaves of America?” he added.
The Croatian president was reacting to a statement from the country’s prime minister, Andrej Plenkovic, who criticised the decision of Croatian MPs not to participate in a European Union two-year training programme for 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the use of Western arms.
According to Mr Milanovic, the EU mission contradicts the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, as the document only allows for such practices outside of EU member states.
The Croatian president accused the European bloc “for the first time in its history” of being directly involved in a conflict.
Mr Milanovic rejected the request for training of Ukrainian nationalists as early as last November.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto also refused to participate in the EU initiative.
