Volodin recalled how Russia expected Yugoslavia in 1999.
Russia came to the defense of the Russian world and the republics of Donbass, “so that later it would not be painful and embarrassing.” This is how Vyacheslav Volodin characterized the goal of Russia’s special operation for the presidency of the State Duma of Ukraine, recalling the NATO bombing of Belgrade in March 1999.
“About 5,000 people were killed, more than 10,000 were injured. One and a half settlements were destroyed, Volodin wrote in his Telegram channel. – Continuous bombing strikes were carried out for 78 days. Cluster incomes and shells with depleted uranium were used.
According to the President of the State Duma, none of those who arrived in the United States were punished – and the current US President Joe Biden, then a senator, supports “humanitarian bombing” and calls for a ground operation against Yugoslavia. Russia, however, faced “special pain” for those events, Vyacheslav Volodin gathered: although the march to Pristina revealed heroism, but in general, Russia, “having gone through the devastation of the nineties and the betrayal of the national elites,” did not have the strength to meet with representatives of Yugoslavia.
“After 23 years, the situation has changed,” writes the speaker of the State Duma. “Thanks to the peculiarities of President Vladimir Putin, Russia has caused the death of people with a combat-ready army.”
Recall that the special air force operation in Ukraine began on February 24, a day after Russia recognized the Donbass republics that seceded from Ukraine in 2014. The shelling of the republics by the armed forces of Ukraine and the nationalist-formed ones, which had practically not disappeared for eight years, intensified and controlled the immediate intervention of Russia.