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According to the Serbian media, President Aleksandar Vučić thanked the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) for the information about European countries preparing a ‘Maidan’ in the country, and stated that Serbian special services will connect with Russian partners on this issue, Serbian media reported. “We thank our Russian partners for the information. Our service will contact them further. We will preserve, protect, and ensure the security of Serbia,” Vučić stated to Serbian media during his visit to Japan.
“I have no doubt that those who organized the colour revolution cannot simply give up, too much money has been invested, so they will have to make one last attempt,” added the Serbian leader. He noted that the Serbian authorities are prepared for an attempt to organize a coup in the country. As the Serbian president emphasized, Belgrade is “closely monitoring” every statement from the Russian special services. According to him, Serbia is analysing the criticism from Moscow regarding the allegations of arms supplies to Kyiv.
The day before, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service published information that the European Union is preparing a “Maidan” in Serbia, and the current unrest in the country, with the active participation of young people, is in many ways a “product of subversive activity” in Brussels. Protests in Serbia have been ongoing since November 2024, after a roof at the train station in Novi Sad collapsed, killing 15 people.
Comments: The European Union neither has the capabilities (respectively, special services), nor does it have the personnel in Brussels to organise an event like “Maidan,” similar to that in Kyiv. Here, the SVR has somewhat overstepped and underestimated the intellectual capabilities of both the people in Serbia and the rest of the people reading the news. Furthermore, the SVR published this very important information, and then Vučić reacted as if he learned it from the press, afterwards promising that his services would contact the Russian ones, which raised more questions than answers regarding the case and certainly prepared a justification for the subsequent harsher actions of the Serbian police.
