Vučić on the military exercise in Peshter

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić stated that the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic will make it incomparably more difficult to invest in the Serbian Army (VS) and emphasized that it is being strengthened to “deter aggressors” and not to initiate conflicts. .

“The pandemic lasts longer than previously thought in the world. All this has been prolonged with vaccines, and the pandemic can only be solved in this way. The numbers are growing in Europe and its surroundings, in our country they are better than in others places, but we’re not happy. ” said Vučić in joint tactical exercise with combat shooting “Cooperation 2020” at the Peshter training ground, near Sjenica.

At the press conference, Vučić emphasized that this military exercise was not directed against anyone and that the Armed Forces belonged equally to all the peoples living in Serbia: “This is your army. It helped when it was hardest during the epidemic and protected their houses”. The Serbian army is as Bosnian as the Serbian and the Hungarian, “he noted.

Vučić said that he thanked all the soldiers, NCOs and officers, people from the Ministry of Defense and everyone else for preparing the exercise, which he claimed could not be carried out in much detail even during the time of the great Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

He cited the landing of a helicopter in a small area as something that the JNA could not carry out, that two rows of tanks were hitting one after another, that the MiG-29 fighters were firing an air-to-ground missile, as well as “many weapons today that people could not to see “.

Vučić specified that, for the first time, all helicopters were armed, in addition to the combat Mi-35s, and carried Mi-17s and X-145s, as well as “Gazelles”.

Vučić told reporters that he did not want to answer questions about political opponents today, and only commented on the writings of some media about the health condition of Večernji novosti’s editor-in-chief, Milorad Vučelić, who was infected with corona and respirators.

He said briefly that these bad things speak more of those who wrote them and not of Vučelić. “He’s strong and I want him to recover,” Vucic said.

In the exercise “Sadjestvo 2020” the participation of 2,800 members of the Armed Forces was announced, including the Air Force and Air Defense, the Army, Special Brigades 72 and 63, as well as more than 150 combat and non-combat vehicles, 40 planes and helicopters.

A Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina was also in Peshter today Milorad Dodik, who stated that the exercise of the Serbian army is encouraging and shows that Serbia can successfully defend statehood and sovereignty..

Vučić said that the invitation to today’s military exercise, which took place in the region where Bosnians make up the majority of the population, was sent to the Bosnian and Croatian members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Šefik Džaferović and Željko Komšić . They did not respond to the call.