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Croatian president: "Crimea will never be part of Ukraine again"

“The arrival of German tanks in Ukraine would only serve to drive Russia closer to China.”

Croatian president: "Crimea will never be part of Ukraine again"
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic
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“Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, will never again be part of Ukraine,” Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said, according to Reuters.

He added that the arrival of German tanks in Ukraine would only bring Russia closer to China.

"It is clear that Crimea will never again be part of Ukraine," Milanovic said.

Milanovic is against Zagreb providing military aid to Kyiv.

In December, Croatian lawmakers rejected a proposal that the country join a European Union mission in support of the Ukrainian military, reflecting deep divisions between Milanovic and Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.

Milanovic has said he does not want his country, the EU's newest member state, to face what he has called “potentially disastrous consequences over the 11-month-old war in Ukraine”.

According to him, what the West is doing regarding Ukraine "is deeply immoral because there is no solution (to the war)".

Last November, Milanovic opposed the training of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in his country as part of an EU mission.

In April, he called the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO "poking the bear in the eye with a pen".

Even before that, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkoviс cut off all contact with President Zoran Milanoviс. He claimed that the president was linked to the former Yugoslav secret service and accused Milanovic of being a manipulator and vandal and "a man with pro-Russian views."

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