BELGRADE, Serbia — Ukraine on Monday rejected as baseless and false the accusations made by Serbia’s president that Ukraine’s secret service is behind a collection of hoax bomb threats towards Air Serbia flights to Russia.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed that the overseas intelligence providers of Ukraine and an unidentified European Union nation “are doing that. The professional-Russian Serbian chief didn’t present proof for his declare. Different Serbian officers had alleged that the threatening bomb hoax emails have been despatched to Serbia from both Ukraine or Poland.
“His (Vucic’s) statements about Ukraine’s alleged involvement in bomb threats to Serbian air carriers flying to Russia are false,” Ukraine‘s International Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko stated in a press release.
The Serbian nationwide service is the one European airline moreover Turkish air corporations that has not joined EU flight sanctions towards Russia over its battle in Ukraine.
A number of Air Serbia flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg have been delayed or needed to return to Belgrade after the nameless bomb threats.
Vucic stated though the flights to Russia do not make a revenue due to frequent returns to their base within the Serbian capital, the flights will proceed “as a matter of our precept.”
Serbia has voted in favor of three U.N. resolutions condemning Russia’s bloody carnage in Ukraine, however has thus far rejected becoming a member of worldwide sanctions towards its allies in Moscow.
Ukraine’s overseas ministry spokesman expressed disappointment that Serbia, a candidate to hitch the EU, has not but supported the 27-nation bloc’s sanctions imposed on Russia.
“Powerful sanctions and unity of the democratic world can cease this battle,” Nikolenko stated in a press release. “We name on Belgrade to face up for the reality and absolutely take part supporting Ukraine and upholding the values on which a united democratic Europe has been based.”
