Putin's national security secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, to visit Belgrade

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One of the closest associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the secretary of the National Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev, is coming to Belgrade on Monday, February 28, Novosti is reporting.

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The plan is for the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev, to meet with President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, and one of the key topics will be the alarming warnings that the so-called dogs of war are being recruited in Kosovo and Metohija, as well as Albania and Bosnia to fight against Donetsk and Lugansk republics on the Ukrainian front,

Vucic and Patrushev are also expected to consider further strengthening of cooperation between the two countries in the field of security, as well as the current challenges facing our region, Europe and the world.

The Russian official is also expected to ask his hosts in Serbia for additional information regarding speculation that Russian opposition leaders were recently allegedly secretly monitored in Belgrade and that Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin handed the material over to Patrushev during a visit to Moscow in early December.

Vulin at the time sharply responded to the allegations, made of Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, that members of the Russian opposition had been wiretapped during a meeting in Belgrade and that the transcripts had been handed over to Moscow.

The Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Milorad Dodik, also warned yesterday that Lavrov's statement about mercenaries from BiH, Albania and self-proclaimed Kosovo who are getting recruited to fight in the war in Ukraine must be taken seriously, because it comes from a man who is one of the supreme authorities in world diplomacy.

Dodik announced that he would ask competent security services in BiH to check that information and inform the public about everything.

(Telegraf.rs)