Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Photo/REUTERS
US media reported in mid-April, citing leaked Pentagon documents, that Serbian authorities had shipped weapons to Ukraine and were prepared to transfer more.
Later, in a conversation with Sputnik, Serbian Defense Minister Milos Vucevic called such reports untrue.
Vucic said on April 13 that Serbia had not and would not supply arms and ammunition to Ukraine.
He added that Belgrade exports its defense products only for authorized end users.
“We produce ammunition, we sell it when Spain, for example, asks for it. And what should we do, we sell it. Could it end up in Ukraine? It could. Did we know that it could end there, we know, but what choice do we have ?” Vucic said in a television appearance on Serbian broadcaster TV Prva.
“Should we break the long-term contract with America, which buys a third, a quarter of the munitions, what are you talking about, what do you want, to close the factory?” he said.
The president noted that the Serbian army will buy all weapons and ammunition produced in Serbia in the next three years “so no one can tell us that our weapons will be sent there (to the conflict area).”
