| − | During the [[Donbas war]] crisis of the winter of 2022, President Zoran Milanovic addressed the nation in a televised address telling them that the democratically elected government of [[Ukraine]] was overthrown in the [[Maidan coup]] in 2014, saw him stating that “Ukraine is still one of the most corrupt countries in the world stagnating economically...The ongoing crisis has nothing to do with Ukraine or [[Russia]], it is connected with the dynamics of the U.S. internal policy led by President [[Joe Biden]] and his administration”, then he declared to the peoples of Croatia: “We will have nothing to do with it and we won’t have anything to do with it, I guarantee you that...Not only will we not send the military, but if there is an escalation, we will recall every last Croatian military man from NATO...This has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia, it has to do with the dynamics of American domestic politics”.<ref>https://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/59629-croatian-president-says-ukraine-should-not-be-part-of-nato</ref> | + | During the [[Donbas war]] crisis of the winter of 2022, President Zoran Milanovic addressed the nation in a televised address telling them that the democratically elected government of [[Ukraine]] was overthrown in the [[Maidan coup]] in 2014, saw him stating that “Ukraine is still one of the most corrupt countries in the world stagnating economically...The ongoing crisis has nothing to do with Ukraine or [[Russia]], it is connected with the dynamics of the U.S. internal policy led by President [[Joe Biden]] and his administration”, then he declared to the peoples of Croatia: “We will have nothing to do with it and we won’t have anything to do with it, I guarantee you that...Not only will we not send the military, but if there is an [[escalation]], we will recall every last Croatian military man from NATO...This has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia, it has to do with the dynamics of American domestic politics”.<ref>https://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/59629-croatian-president-says-ukraine-should-not-be-part-of-nato</ref> |
| | In December 2022 President Milanovic vetoing an initiative to train Ukraine troops in Croatia said: “Ukraine is not an ally…It’s being forcibly made into one…It was cynically granted the status of an EU candidate…That’s what the EU is today: squalor, zero”, after which he blasted his own [[Prime Minister]] Andrej Plenkovic for supporting Ukraine, telling him: “You keep pushing moral [[blackmail]]...But you have no [[morals]] yourself...Go to Ukraine and fight”.<ref>https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/ukraine-is-not-our-ally-croatian-president/</ref> | | In December 2022 President Milanovic vetoing an initiative to train Ukraine troops in Croatia said: “Ukraine is not an ally…It’s being forcibly made into one…It was cynically granted the status of an EU candidate…That’s what the EU is today: squalor, zero”, after which he blasted his own [[Prime Minister]] Andrej Plenkovic for supporting Ukraine, telling him: “You keep pushing moral [[blackmail]]...But you have no [[morals]] yourself...Go to Ukraine and fight”.<ref>https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/ukraine-is-not-our-ally-croatian-president/</ref> |