BELGRADE, September 19. /TASS/. The West has been behaving brazenly in Ukraine for years, Russia was forced to react in order to save people in Donbass, Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik said in an interview with TASS on the eve of his visit to Moscow.
"For many years the West did not react to the extermination of the Russian population in Ukraine, there were daily murders and bombings in Donbass. The West had prepared an offensive against Lugansk and Donetsk with Ukrainian forces, trained their units, and sent a significant number of its own mercenaries. All this was clear, and Russia was forced to retaliate. But the way it does it is very different from the way the Americans have done it in many parts of the world, not counting civilian casualties. Russia is conducting a special operation whose purpose is indeed to destroy the enemy, but it carries out its mission so that there are as few casualties as possible," Dodik specified.
