Croatian President Zoran Milanović is again causing a stir in Zagreb with controversial statements about Western involvement in the war in Ukraine. Prime Minister Andrej Plenković therefore accused the president of anti-US, anti-NATO and anti-Europe policies, as reported by the Croatian media.
“Washington and NATO are waging a proxy war against Russia through Ukraine. And vice versa,” Milanović said at a press conference in Vukovar on Sunday, according to media reports. He criticized that there was no clear goal. “Without a goal, without a plan, everything ends like in Afghanistan,” he stressed.
Again, sanctions are said to be ineffective
Impeaching Russian President Vladimir “Putin cannot be the plan. The sanctions cannot be the plan,” Milanović said, continuing that the sanctions are “nonsense” that will accomplish nothing. In doing so, he reiterated his criticism of Western sanctions against Russia, which he had previously described as ineffective.
Recent statements about the war in Ukraine, with which the president disagrees with the government, have again led to critical reactions in Croatia. “These statements are ridiculous, that’s the real problem,” Plenković said Monday night. “These are serious statements,” he added, wondering on whose behalf and in whose interest Milanovic was making them.
Ruling party: ‘Media star of the Russian regime’
The ruling HDZ party criticized via Facebook that Milanović’s statements match the official Russian narrative. Referring to the fact that Russian state media had accepted his statements “with visible satisfaction”, the HDZ described the president as “a star of the Russian regime’s media”.
Source: Krone
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