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The Ukrainian icon, which was introduced to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, was reportedly removed from Donbass by the head of Serbian veterans Dusko Vukotic in 2018.
The Ukrainian icon, who was introduced to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, by the president of the Presidium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, entered the country through Russia and Serbia. This was told by the former head of the Serbian Army Veterans Association Dragan Savic in an interview with the deputy of the opposition Serbian Democratic Party Nebojš Vukanovic. The translation of their conversation was published by the Balkan Observer.
According to Vukanovic, Dodik received this icon from the president of the Serbian Army Veterans Association, Dusko Vukotic, in May 2018. Vukotic himself brought the Donbass icon to Russia and Serbia.
According to information released to the public, Vukotic went to Donbass in 2018 to participate in a meeting of the Heirs of Victory association. During this visit, representatives of the “LPR” and “DPR” allegedly presented the head of the Serbian veterans with an icon representing Saint Nicholas, which he then brought to Dodik.
Vukotic himself, in a comment to Dnevni Avaz, did not confirm, but did not deny the information that it was he who took the Ukrainian Donbass icon, stating only that Interpol was involved in its origin.
Lavrov paid an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 14-15. Later it was learned that Dodik presented the Russian minister with a golden icon of about 300 years. The media wrote that the icon allegedly came to Bosnia from Lugansk, which has been occupied by pro-Russian militants since 2014.
According to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the seal on the icon indicates that it is owned by Ukraine. The Ukrainian embassy sent a note to the Bosnian government demanding to find out how the icon got to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On December 24, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it had returned the icon to the Bosnia and Herzegovina embassy to find out its origin.
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