Serbian President Vučić: the country urgently buys food because of the crisis in Ukraine
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Serbia began urgently buying food and oil products because of the crisis in Ukraine. This was announced on Prva Srpska Televizija by President Aleksandar Vučić, TASS reports.
“When you see that the whole world is hysterically waiting for something to happen between Russia and Ukraine, then you cannot pretend that nothing is happening,” he explained. According to him, his head explodes from the fact that it is necessary to find money not provided for by the budget and solve the issue of purchasing oil products in large volumes.
“Today we urgently ordered ten million kilograms of salt, one million kilograms of beans, the same amount of peas. Let's take 30 million kilograms of flour,” he listed.
On February 8, Vučić indicated that Belgrade is proceeding from the worst-case scenario for the Ukrainian conflict and is trying to secure its reserves, including food supplies. Nevertheless, he expressed hope for a peaceful solution to the problem through the joint efforts of Russia and the United States, since in this case he would not be afraid for the future of his country and continent, Serbia would achieve significant results, and the population would have great hopes. “The only thing that can stop us here is a big global crisis. I believe that Russians and Ukrainians, that is, Russians and Americans, will find a joint solution, and the solution will be peaceful,” Vučić emphasized.
