Dodik for TASS: Drones over Europe are a provocation against Russia

(Patria) - Incidents with drones in Europe are part of a global provocation against Russia that the West has nurtured for decades, Milorad Dodik, whom the Russian agency presented as "President of Republika Srpska (an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina)," told TASS in an interview after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi.

"This is just part of the broader provocations we are witnessing," Dodik said in response to a question.

"The most serious provocation occurred when the so-called Minsk agreements were signed. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that it was just an opportunity to wait for the government in Kyiv to stabilize and engage in conflict with Russia. It was a deception. All these stories about Russia as an aggressor country threatening Europe are lies."

"As I see it, Russia is close to the concept of a prosperous and wealthy country. Russia launched a special military operation for obvious reasons. For years, even decades, it issued warnings, but they yielded no results. The West ignored it. They planned to change the government in Ukraine and seize Russian natural resources. They have been plotting this conspiracy for decades, even centuries," Dodik said, adding that they "did not succeed" in it.

"Now they (in the West) are panicking and have to explain to their people what is happening. People there have had their brains washed by propaganda and believe what they are told," he concluded.