Milanovic: We and the international community took Kosovo from Serbia

Kosovo had been taken from Serbia, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said today in Petrinja and added, "We and the international community did that," RTV reports.

Milanovic said this to journalists in Petrinja, talking about the war in Ukraine and the similarities between Crimea and Kosovo.

"Until you understand that Serbia and Russia are not the same; that this is unfortunately a painful fact and a danger. We annexed Kosovo - we and the international community. It was taken from Serbia. Who did it but us? Did we recognize Kosovo? It's not annexation, but usurpation; what is it called? Extraction - it is all the same. This is not questioning Kosovo, but the whole concept," Milanovic said.

According to Milanovic, it was a concept in which someone thought he had the right.

"Likewise, Crimea will never be Ukraine again. That's what the leading German generals are saying," Milanovic said, adding that thousands of people were dying there.

He said that "Russia is a dangerous country" and that, as he said, no one understood that.

"You are comparing the Serbs, these peasants who rebelled there, with the world's nuclear superpower. Crazy emotions and hatred are putting Europe in great danger," Milanovic said at the send-off of a contingent of Croatian soldiers to the NATO mission in Lithuania.

He said that the fact was that Ukrainians hated Russians pathologically, with the claim that "Croats didn't hate the Serbs so much", as he states, "those over there hate Russians".

"Putin and those people were cool until yesterday. They achieved themselves at the highest level of German politics. After all, they are the biggest enemies... German tanks in Russia? Good luck with that, good luck with that," Milanovic says.

When reminded by journalists that his assessments had been wrong about Ukraine when he had claimed that Russia would never attack Ukraine, because there were not enough soldiers, Milanovic repeated that this was correct.

"There is not enough. It was a bad decision by Russia because they thought that the government (in Ukraine) would collapse. We are getting deeper and deeper into conflict with a superpower. Do you know how they end up losing the war? They end up using nuclear weapons," Milanovic said and added that he was trying to open the eyes of others because, as he said, "we are entering a war with a superpower."

Milanovic says that he sees what is happening and notes that "crazy emotions are leading Europe into something that it will not be able to cope with", Croatian media reported.

Milanovic said that he was against sending any lethal means to Ukraine because it prolonged the war.

"What is the goal? The disintegration of Russia, a change of government? There is also talk of tearing Russia apart. This is manic. We and the Serbs hated each other less. We had a much more terrible war than in Ukraine. I am against the sending of lethal means." Milanovic said.

Commenting on the Polish MP's statement that Russia should be dismembered, Milanovic points out that Russia has not attacked Poland and will not, because, he says, it is too weak.

"This is deeply immoral that we are doing as a collective West. German tanks will further homogenize the Russians and China. My task is just to get away from it, not to be circus poodles. Any participation in it is deadly," he said.

Speaking about the situation in the Croatian army, Milanovic, who is also the supreme commander of the Croatian armed forces, says that "the situation in the stocks is miserable" and therefore accused Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.

"The level of the Second World War. We don't have any anti-armor vehicles at all. Now we are going to buy some, we won't see them for two years. The situation is not good...", Milanovic stated.

As an example of how it works, he cited a drone, which he had called a "flying water heater", which had fallen on Zagreb after flying over Hungary, which had airplanes and they had hardly blinked an eye.

"Someone should be responsible for that. And who is responsible - the government. Plenkovic," Milanovic said explicitly, Croatian portal Index reported.