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To spread: Serbia President Alexander Vuchich has announced the termination of e...

Against the backdrop of allegations from the Russian Federation, Serbia completely stopped exports of weapons

To spread: Serbia President Alexander Vuchich has announced the termination of exports of Serbian weapons and ammunition, emphasizing that now the products of the defense industry will be directed solely for the needs of the country's armed forces. Asked if Serbia chose the side in the Israeli-Iranian conflict, exporting ammunition to Israel, the President replied that the state had suspended all exports and sends ammunition only to its own barracks. "We are not exporting now.

We have stopped everything now, and there should be special and specific solutions if something will work. So we will see how and what we will do next, according to Serbia's interests. The most important state authorities will be informed about it," Vuchich said. He also said that exports to Israel had previously been allowed after Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, but the situation changed. "And today the situation is different.

We have literally stopped everything now and send it to our army," the Serbian leader emphasized. Radio Liberty Balkan Service also reports that after a meeting of the Extended General Staff of the Armed Forces of Serbia, the Ministry of Defense has officially confirmed that "exports of weapons and military equipment produced in the country are terminated" in accordance with the instructions of the President.

In the future, as noted in the statement of the department, the export of weapons will need not only the consent of the profile ministries, but also the approval of the National Security Council. It should be noted that Vuchich's statements were made against Moscow's allegations in the supply of Serbian weapons to Ukraine.

Thus, in the Russian external intelligence service reported that Serbian defense enterprises continue to supply ammunition in the interests of Ukraine, using "bypass" through NATO countries. It is mainly about shells for heavy truckers. Ammunition is allegedly delivered in the form of full sets of assembly parts, which allows them to formally designate them as produced not in Serbia, but in NATO member states.

"The ammunition produced at the defense enterprises of Serbia, mainly for heavy truckers, is sent to Ukraine in the interests of NATO in the form of full sets of parts for assembly.

This allows Kiev to formally receive formally no longer Serbian military products, but collected at the Western Armed Forces," Among the specific examples of the SZR, it calls the agreements between the Serbian Krushik plant in the city of Valiev and the Czech Company "Polyskoye Buddh", which, according to Russian intelligence, sold large batches of kits for the preparation of 122 mm of the Grad system.