Protest in support of Russia in Serbia – Vucic’s hidden signal to show loyalty to Putin

While protests in support of Ukraine and against Russia are taking place in most cities around the world, completely different images arrive from Belgrade. In the Serbian capital, thousands of pro-Russian protesters took to the streets to express support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Protesters marched through the center of the Serbian capital with Russian flags and pictures of Vladimir Putin.

The demonstrators chanted messages of support for Russia, while representatives of far-right organizations – Damnjan Knezevic from the People’s Patrol and Mladen Obradovic from the Obraz – addressed the protesters.

Those from the protest said that if Serbia imposes sanctions on Russia, they will respond in a much larger number.

On the occasion of the protest in support of Russian aggression, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vuicic, neither spoke nor condemned the protest.

MEP and rapporteur for Kosovo Viola von Cramon reacted to the protest in support of Russian aggression, calling it such an irritating and horrific protest.

A mural with the image of Vladimir Putin was unveiled in Belgrade yesterday, at the same location where a mural with the image of Ratko Mladic, convicted of war crimes and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina before the Hague Tribunal, was painted last year.

It is assumed that the protests in support of Russian aggression against Ukraine, as well as the mural with Putin’s image, made Vucic, through his people, who “secretly” do what he really thinks, and that is creating universal support for Russian policy, but also that the Serbian president show loyalty to his Russian counterpart.