”From day one, the war has developed in a direction that is undesirable and catastrophic for Ukraine. Half a million people have been killed or wounded, and now what? Are another 50,000 people to be killed or maimed? Will that satisfy anyone’s appetite – be it Washington or Moscow – is that enough?” Milanović asked, referring to NATO’s latest mission, Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, which he had previously described as NATO’s entry into the war.
”All of us – myself included – have brought Ukraine into this catastrophic situation. The country is destroyed and this must stop as soon as possible,” emphasised Milanović at a joint press conference after the Brdo-Brijuni Process summit.
He called on ”those who want war” to send their own children to fight. He called for the conflict to be resolved diplomatically and warned that it would not end well for those who waged it on the Western side.
”NATO is getting involved in that conflict now after two-and-a-half years? So far, NATO as an institution has had no legal or formal presence in Ukraine. Now they’ve decided to join? Well, I say, go ahead. But as long as I am the president and the commander-in-chief, and while the vast majority of Croatian people feel the same way, I will not sign that order,” said the president. Läs artikel