Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova explained the background of President Vladimir Putin’s apology to his Serbian counterpart Alexander Vucic. She told about this in an interview with the show “Alena, damn it!” on Super’s YouTube channel.
“It was not me (Vucic – approx.” Lenta.ru “) who offended him, he was offended. These are different things. There was not a word about him, but he took it personally, although there was something completely different , – said Zakharova. – It was about how the protocolmen in the White House use various technological methods in order to replay the situation in their favor. “
The diplomat added that the American side tried to arrange the same situations in the presence of the Russian delegation. “Knowing this, we are trying to talk about all the protocol features in advance, but it seems to me that it was a vivid example of how the Americans again decided to put the foreign delegation in the position in which they put it. Therefore, there was not a word about it, so he offended, well, as I understand it, he was offended, “she continued.
When asked what it felt like when the Russian president apologized for her, Zakharova replied: “This is it.” In response to a clarifying question, she explained that no action was taken against her.
On September 6, 2020, Zakharova published a post in which she ironically commented on the meeting of the Presidents of Serbia and the United States, Alexander Vucic and Donald Trump. The reason was the photo, which shows that Trump is sitting at a considerable distance from the interlocutor. She later apologized, explaining that she meant rejection of the arrogant attitude from the “exceptional”.
Vucic called Zakharova’s words primitivism and expressed regret that Moscow does not value Serbia as the only European country that has not joined the anti-Russian sanctions.
Later, the Serbian leader said that Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov apologized for Zakharova’s words, stressing that he considered this incident “passing and unimportant”.