Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told reporters Aug. 9 that Moscow had warned Belgrade about Western plans to use Aug. 10 protest demonstrations to bring about a Ukraine-style regime change coup d’état in Serbia. According to TASS, Vucic said: “Today, we received official information from the Russian Federation. The information was provided through formal channels and we are working to sort it out. The Security and Information Agency (Serbia’s intelligence body) is responsible for that; besides, people in the Serbian government and other agencies who specialize on these things are doing their job.”
Vucic continued: “Those who dream of achieving something by force will fail. Serbia is consistently moving forward and they cannot and will not stop it. They will never be able to stop it again. This is my message to everyone, and our people have nothing to worry about.”
TASS added that the Serbian “Vecernje Novosti newspaper reported that members of Serbia’s opposition were ready to take advantage of the pro-Western protests in Belgrade planned for August 10 to seize the presidential palace, eliminate the head of state and launch the same scenario as in Ukraine.”
