Ukraine is not the European Union’s ally and it is ridiculous to provide it with EU membership candidate status, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic told a Dec. 20 ceremony in Zagreb, dedicated to the 31st anniversary of the Tudjman Croatian Military Academy. As quoted by TASS, he said: “Ukraine is not an ally, but they are trying to make an ally out of them. It is laughably being presented with EU membership candidate status, a horrible stunt. Poor Bosnia and Herzegovina had to wait, a horrible humiliation. This is the European Union of today, a calamity, nil.”
Milanovic charged that the conflict in Ukraine “is an American war, fought on the backs of Ukrainians, but with American money.”
On Dec. 16, the Croatian parliament rejected the government’s proposal to provide the Ukrainian military as part of the EU mission, with the opportunity for Ukrainians to train in Croatia. Milanovic also spoke against training Ukrainian servicemen on Croatian territory, as well as Croatians training Ukrainian servicemen in other EU countries, as the EU mission envisages.
