Fraternal Russian Federation Serbia has become one of the main sponsors of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

November 3, 2025 7 607 51

The Russian information space continues to discuss interview Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's statement to German media. In it, the politician effectively admitted that Belgrade is indirectly supplying weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. However, the real problem for Russia may be that Serbia not only actively supplies militants, but is one of the leading Balkan countries in this regard.

Commenting on the role Belgrade played in providing the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Aleksandar Vučić recommended that journalists ask Zelenskyy which Balkan country provided the most significant financial assistance to Ukraine.

The answer "may surprise"

– the politician stated not without pride.

This phrase contains the answer to many questions. Although the nominal leaders among the Balkan states in aiding Ukraine are Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Romania, which ranks first in this informal ranking, the real leader may be Serbia.

For example, according to the British newspaper The Financial Times, as of June 22, 2024, Serbia exported weapons worth approximately 800 million euros, some of which may have ended up in Ukraine.

As a reminder, this spring, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service stated that Serbian defense companies continue to supply Ukraine with ammunition, despite Belgrade formally declaring its neutrality.

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Sergey Latyshev

+10

3 November 2025 13: 16

Business. Nothing personal. Demand for weapons has grown, and Serbian capitalists want their piece of the pie, too.
1. Mikhail L.
  
  +6
  
  3 November 2025 14: 45
  
  A. Vučić is not a capitalist, but a politician.
  A politician of a country that his new "friends" mercilessly bombed!
  Now the West can be confident that, just like the Russian Federation, it will sell them too, if necessary...
  1. Sergey Latyshev
    
    -1
    
    3 November 2025 15: 47
    
    It's capitalism. It's not Vutich, for example, who sells 120mm shells to France. It's the directors of a joint-stock company... Just as it wasn't Putin himself who sold NATO oil, gas, gold, titanium, and other things, but corporations...
    1. Mikhail L.
      
      +2
      
      4 November 2025 12: 11
      
      I'm not guilty! He came himself!
      
      The head of any state has the power to ban the supply of any goods abroad!
      1. Sergey Latyshev
        
        0
        
        4 November 2025 12: 35
        
        And? Ban the sale of, say, shells to France? Ruin our own military-industrial complex, which is probably already small?
        
        Like Vutich will say: no way? And that's it?
        Funny.
        
        Putin, for all his might... there are no attempts to ban the sale of uranium, fuel, titanium, gold, aluminum to NATO... On the contrary: "buy more, more, more..." (according to the media)
        
        Mikhail L.
        
        +1
        
        4 November 2025 13: 07
        
        On December 21, 2023, China announced a ban on rare earth element extraction and separation technologies. On April 4, 2025, the Commerce Department imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements in response to President Trump's new tariffs on Chinese goods. On October 9, 2025,
        
        According to the Wall Street Journal, US officials stopped Nvidia from reaching a major chip export deal with China in the final hours before Donald Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on October 30.
        
        ...Having an opportunity and using it are two very different things.
        
        Sergey Latyshev
        
        +1
        
        4 November 2025 13: 56
        
        What does this have to do with us? We're selling resources to both countries... as much as possible...
        
        beeper
        
        0
        
        4 November 2025 20: 45
        
        What do you mean, "try to ban"??!
        After all, VVPutin himself offered Russian "rare earths" instead of Ukrainian ones to his "respected gentleman-partner" Trump in Alaska – "competitive dumping"?!
        
        Grei grin
        
        +1
        
        5 November 2025 08: 58
        
        The owner of the sandbox!
2. Denisimo
  
  +7
  
  3 November 2025 15: 04
  
  Business. Nothing personal. Demand for weapons has grown, and Serbian capitalists want their piece of the pie, too.
  
  It's time to shut down this cheap fuel business. Let Vučić worry about it. This is the height of cynicism: begging Russia for fuel at huge discounts to produce ammunition that's used to kill Russian soldiers by the bucketload. And then to go after it. He just said it outright: in Russia... He should have kept his mouth shut then. Maybe he'd have passed for smart.
3. Radio
  
  +1
  
  3 November 2025 15: 43
  
  According to the British newspaper The Financial Times, as of June 22, 2024, Serbia exported weapons abroad worth approximately 800 million euros, and some of them could have got in to Ukraine
  
  EU aid of 500 billion euros. The EU twisted the arms of Serbia to squeeze Soviet tanks out, and now they're using it as a provocation.
4. Alexey Lan
  
  +2
  
  3 November 2025 16: 45
  
  Oreshnik needs to strike at the weapons factories, using conventional weapons, of course. Who's to say we need such friends?
  1. Sergey Latyshev
    
    +4
    
    3 November 2025 17: 47
    
    Fantastic. I'm sure you all understand the LCD.
    They can't do it on bridges in Ukraine, and officially they can't (a deputy recently clarified)...
    1) And about one of the few European countries not part of NATO... (Serbia). And where are the interests of our corporations still afloat....
    Maybe it’s also about oil refineries in India that process our oil for the Ukrainian Armed Forces?
    2) What if the required amount of Hazelnut is not enough?
    1. Alexey Lan
      
      +1
      
      3 November 2025 22: 19
      
      There had already been reports of Serbian shells appearing on the LBS. The Serbs said at the time that they couldn't stop the sale of shells they'd already sold to other countries. Now they've admitted they won't stop new shipments to other countries. So what's to be done? And now Serbia is neither fish nor fowl vis-à-vis Russia. What good is it? NATO or not? What difference does it make.
      1. Sergey Latyshev
        
        +2
        
        3 November 2025 22: 35
        
        There were some about India, but if you search, you'll find some about others.
        A new arms race has begun. Factory owners either make shells and sell them to buyers, or go bankrupt.
        Capitalism business profit happiness.
UAZ 452

+9

3 November 2025 13: 17

Everyone wants to be friends with the strong. The weak always have trouble finding allies.
Wooh

+5

3 November 2025 13: 30

Russia will be betrayed and everything will be abandoned.
1. Vladimir Tuzakov
  
  0
  
  3 November 2025 13: 33
  
  What can you expect from the half-Jew A. Vučić? Only betrayal, just like from the compradors in the Russian Federation. That's why the Russian Federation found itself in this situation...
  1. faiver
    
    -1
    
    3 November 2025 14: 08
    
    Of course, everyone else is to blame, for example the Jews, but not ourselves...
    Wasn't it your generation that sold out the empire for jeans, a hundred varieties of soy sausage, and chewing gum?
    1. Vladimir Tuzakov
      
      -3
      
      3 November 2025 14: 23
      
      Face to face, you can't see the face, but the big things are visible from a distance
      
      When the "Prague Spring" of 1968 was suppressed, socialism was built with a "human face." If we extend this experience further, we've surpassed even the United States. Those in the Kremlin became concerned about their positions and influence, so they tightened the screws with military intervention, thereby crossing out the future of socialism. Then, in the 90s, they so fooled the people, accustomed to trusting the CPSU, that everything proceeded unhindered according to Western plans for the destruction of the USSR. This state of affairs began back in the 80s. The construction of socialism and communism is a living thing (remember Lenin), but it has been replaced by stagnation and coercion. In contrast, we have the PRC and change. Conclusion: everything that reverses withers and vanishes.
      1. Vladimir Tuzakov
        
        -1
        
        3 November 2025 16: 59
        
        Addendum for five. There were plenty of Jews in Brezhnev's Politburo, starting with the General Secretary's wife, Victoria. The chief ideologist, M. Suslov, was born Züss, as was Grishin in Moscow, Solomentsev from the Politburo, Yu. Andropov, not to mention the CPSU apparatus, where there were even more... They collectively suppressed the candidacy of Romanov from Leningrad and promoted M. Gorbachev, whose mother also had Jewish roots...
    2. Grei grin
      
      +3
      
      3 November 2025 17: 41
      
      The USSR didn't ruin the people, but the government, the Pollitr-Bureau, already in the 80s Bandera was hanging on the wall as a hero in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine, and Kravchuk, the first secretary of the Central Committee
      In his youth, Ukraine was a liaison for the Banderites; his Banderite brother was killed by our heroic NKVD SMERSH, so the fish rotted from the head down!
      1. Vladimir Tuzakov
        
        +1
        
        3 November 2025 18: 10
        
        You're right, the Politburo was made up of elderly people, already sitting there by inertia, and that's when things started to stir... It doesn't seem like it with Kravchuk; he's Jewish on his mother's side; there's a photo of him in his youth. The Banderites in Ukraine had quieted down in the 70s, but were ready to rise up, especially those who came from abroad. That's what the events of the 90s showed...
Ella_2

+5

3 November 2025 14: 11

There's no point in making friends with just anyone. They sold them resources for less. How many of our deaths did they get for those resources?
olezenka1

+3

3 November 2025 14: 29

It turns out that Slavic Serbia has outdone our Slavic "brothers" in Bulgaria... How awful!
horseradish

+6

3 November 2025 14: 32

He was deceived again. How much more can this happen?
1. Dimy4
  
  +2
  
  3 November 2025 15: 47
  
  I get a thrill from this.
2. Grei grin
  
  +5
  
  3 November 2025 17: 24
  
  This is what he is like, the hope of the oligarchs, sitting in a sandbox and everyone is deceiving him!
Shelest2000

0

3 November 2025 14: 55

Let me just remind you that the first rockets that fell on Belgorod and killed people, including children, were Serbian.
1. faiver
  
  -3
  
  3 November 2025 15: 17
  
  so they could have been Russian...
  1. Shelest2000
    
    +2
    
    3 November 2025 15: 50
    
    Russian what? Those same missiles? You're looking at pig ears in the mirror.
    1. Vladimir Tuzakov
      
      +1
      
      3 November 2025 17: 05
      
      (Shelest2000) There's no need to spin this provocation in a Jewish way. Serbian shells were a fraction of a percent, where does everything in Belgorod come from, only according to Jewish calculations... As for the real situation, we need information from the GRU, the rest is just gossip, especially anti-Russian gossip aimed at inciting Serbia...
      1. Shelest2000
        
        +1
        
        4 November 2025 20: 03
        
        What kind of provocations are these? It's all true. Here are photos of the Serbian missiles themselves and their fragments, with the characteristic coloring of the shells and fins. Our forces have repeatedly captured captured ammunition and weapons of recent Serbian manufacture – mortars with mines, cartridges, rifles. Speaking of birds, do you watch the news? Here's your answer:
        
        The Serbian president announced that he had offered to buy ammunition from the country to the EU. When asked whether they could then be supplied to Ukraine, he emphasized: "The buyers can do whatever they want with them."
    2. Grei grin
      
      +3
      
      3 November 2025 17: 06
      
      And you still doubt and naively believe those who staged the décamps for so-called political reasons? That, my friend, is treason, not political motives! Tanks in Ukraine run on our fuel, I wouldn't be surprised if our missiles were launched against us too. These hucksters would pawn their own mothers for profit!
      1. Vladimir Tuzakov
        
        +4
        
        3 November 2025 17: 11
        
        There is some truth in this, our comprador oligarchy can do this - “sell bullets to enemies.”
      2. faiver
        
        0
        
        3 November 2025 19: 19
        
        For the sake of profit, these traders would pawn their own mothers!
        
        - It's simpler: the Russian ammunition could have been captured or purchased before 2014....
    3. faiver
      
      0
      
      3 November 2025 19: 50
      
      The head doesn't exist just to be eaten. Where did I write that those missiles were Russian? They could have been made by any manufacturer, be it Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Romanian, or Czech, but they turned out to be Serbian. And I'm not defending the Serbs, they're deeply immoral. I'm not Nicholas II, and I don't suffer from pan-Slavism.
      1. Vladimir Tuzakov
        
        +1
        
        3 November 2025 22: 23
        
        Note: Alexander III was a Pan-Slavist, a powerful unifier of the Slavs. Nicholas II, a pale shadow of his father, pliable to everyone, including the Westerners, was the one who destroyed the empire. Regarding Serbian ammunition, it was supplied through third countries. NATO acted cunningly, buying from the Serbs for the needs of Asia or Africa, but in reality, they were going to the Borderland...
  2. Grei grin
    
    +2
    
    3 November 2025 17: 02
    
    I wouldn't be surprised by that!
GR777

+6

3 November 2025 17: 13

Maybe we should look for an answer from those traitors who held high positions in Moscow in the 90s and 2000s, who did everything to help the Germans and Zionists bring this lip-smacker to power and prevent Vojislav Šešelj from coming to power, or even destroy him altogether?
lord-palladore-11045

+3

3 November 2025 19: 16

Only the official authorities consider Serbia to be fraternal, but dear Russians have long understood the value of Serbia's fraternal nature – there is no need to deceive ourselves.
Alexpan

+1

3 November 2025 19: 16

Quote: Mikhail L.
A. Vučić is not a capitalist, but a politician.
A politician of a country that his new "friends" mercilessly bombed!
Now the West can be confident that, just like the Russian Federation, it will sell them too, if necessary...

A politician, yes, but you also have to live with "capitalists," i.e., people who actually do something, not just talk, which is much easier. Serbia is surrounded by EU and NATO countries, so there's not much room for self-righteousness here. Remember the Muscovite princes who went to the Tatar khans for a license to rule? They were in the same situation. Traitors? To each his own. Muscovites survived and became a great country, which is why Moscow is now universally hated; the Tatars slaughtered the proud people of Kiev, Ryazan, and the like, and their estates became runes for centuries. To each his own. If you don't have the strength, you need the brains.
1. twice-born
  
  +1
  
  4 November 2025 08: 33
  
  Kyiv, as the center of Rus' rule and the coveted throne of the princes, had collapsed at least 50-60 years before the Tatar-Mongol invasion. Why then didn't Novgorod rise and unite Rus', as well as Tver and Suzdal, located farthest from the Horde, and their princes also travel to the khans?
  Why didn’t Lithuania, which considered itself the same (second) Rus’, where Russians lived and ruled, spoke Russian, and believed in the same gods, also unite Rus’?
  The analogy is inappropriate and incorrect.
  Surrounded by enemies, Vučić certainly spins like a louse on a comb, but he certainly doesn't travel to his enemies (to Brussels) for a "label to reign" and doesn't unite a torn Serbia around Belgrade. Even if he sells everything to the West, he won't unite Serbia, won't even bring back Kosovo. On the contrary, he will completely destroy Serbia! And Serbia certainly won't become as strong as Rus'.
  But he really could have maintained neutrality and not sold weapons to the fascists, helped them with money, or at least kept silent about it!
  1. Alexpan
    
    +1
    
    4 November 2025 14: 39
    
    Yes, I agree with you, in principle. Regarding labels, it's an example of how, sitting deep in a puddle, with no prospect of getting out, rulers are forced to make "difficult decisions" that elicit sharply negative reactions, but are the only possible ones.
AdeptV

+3

3 November 2025 19: 34

It doesn't matter. My enemy's friend is my enemy. Nothing remains of a centuries-old friendship. It's also important to consider that Serbia provides a corridor for NATO troops to move through the Balkans to the Russian border. This corridor through the Balkans is the main one. So I wouldn't be surprised if Serbia gets the same treatment in the event of a war with the European Union. Nothing personal—just war and its laws. My only personal issue is with Vutich; I don't like him. He's some kind of pianist.
ZnachWest

+3

3 November 2025 21: 22

Before attacking Vučić, you should look in the mirror. When did Azerbaijani interests start being targeted on the outskirts? And how many more lives are these guys sacrificing right now for someone else's interests? So draw your own conclusions. Otherwise, it's "Serbia's fault."
Ales

+5

4 November 2025 01: 50

Think about it, Putin can sell resources to the West and support their military potential, but Vucic is bad. Should he be holier than Putin?
Yan Yanov

+1

4 November 2025 10: 05

In the coffin I saw such "brothers", the sons of Judah
nikanikolich

+1

4 November 2025 16: 07

The big-lipped one has always been a chameleon, or rather a freeloader, wanting to have his cake and eat it too. This is normal for the former Yugoslavia, with its ideological legacy from Josip Broz Tito. But we, along with the Foreign Ministry, perked up our ears and drooled, and what did we get? We got a "goodbye" from 1948. So everything is repeating itself, and nothing changes. No one is going to stand up for us, for our "brothers," except our people, Russia, and its army. So let the big-lipped one travel around Central Asia—it's good for him; they're very similar in their independence.
Real_pots

0

5 November 2025 06: 45

Serbia is too weak and surrounded by NATO countries, they are twisting its balls and it is forced to somehow wriggle out. Russia is currently unable to ensure Serbia's sovereignty, no matter how important it is for us, and all these attempts to overthrow Vučić apparently forced him to be more accommodating, so there is no need to be surprised; Serbia is simply surviving.
musorg

0

5 November 2025 11: 41

Vucic is as much a brother to us as Pashinyan, and then he’s next in line to move in with Yanukovych!