“For 78 days, the United States and its allies bombed cities, including Belgrade, and villages, civil infrastructure, blew up bridges, passenger trains and buses, killed women, children and the elderly. That’s when the West, with its own hands, destroyed the foundations on which security in Europe was based in the post-war period and launched the process of replacing legitimate mechanisms regulating international relations with a kind of “rules-based order”, the department said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that NATO countries fired 3,000 cruise missiles at Yugoslavia and dropped 80,000 tons of aerial bombs on Yugoslav territory. Washington and its allies also used shells with depleted uranium, which caused a sharp increase in the incidence of cancer among the population of Yugoslavia.
“None of the representatives of the North Atlantic Alliance suffered any punishment. In turn, they simply decided to call the victims of aggression “collateral losses”, that is, losses that “accompany” the implementation of the geopolitical ambitions of the United States “Great Britain and its satellites. The question of the responsibility of the North Atlantic allies for the damage they caused to international relations and directly to the country itself remains open,” summarized the Russian Foreign Ministry.
