{"id":1315300,"date":"2025-11-03T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/serbia-agreed-to-sell-weapons-to-europe-why-is-this-important-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:55:56","slug":"serbia-agreed-to-sell-weapons-to-europe-why-is-this-important-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/serbia-agreed-to-sell-weapons-to-europe-why-is-this-important-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia agreed to sell weapons to Europe: why is this important for Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 has proposed that the European Union conclude a deal to buy and sell ammunition from Serbian warehouses, which he says are &#8220;overcrowded.&#8221; This, Vu\u010di\u0107 said, could help European security and raises the question of the future purpose of the purchased products.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicero.de\/aussenpolitik\/serbiens-prasident-alexander-vucic-ich-werde-jeden-tag-als-eine-art-hitler-dargestellt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cicero<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> The President of Serbia stated that the country produces a significant amount of ammunition, including mortar shells. Vucic noted that Serbia allegedly produces more ammunition than France and has the ability to supply them to European countries.<\/p>\n<p> When asked whether the Europeans would then be able to transfer the purchased weapons to Ukraine, Vucic replied that they &#8220;can do whatever they want with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The head of state also emphasized that his country remains &#8220;militarily neutral,&#8221; while at the same time ready to cooperate with European armies.<\/p>\n<p> Vu\u010di\u0107 added that Serbia needs long-term contracts and reported on the already existing military cooperation with partners in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p> The conversation also touched on concerns about Serbia&#8217;s ties with Russia; Vu\u010di\u0107 denied that these ties posed a threat to Europe, reiterating his country&#8217;s readiness to supply ammunition to European partners.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shche-bilshe-zbroi-dlia-ukrainy-nato-zapuskaie-novyy-etap-postachan\/\">NATO is preparing a new support package for Ukraine<\/a> . This week, new commitments from allies may be announced within the framework of the PURL program, an international initiative for centralized arms supplies to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/initsiatyva-purl-sloveniia-profinansuie-zakupivliu-amerykanskoho-ozbroiennia-dlia-ukrainy\/\">Slovenia is officially joining the international PURL initiative, within the framework of which NATO countries finance the purchase of American weapons to strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s defense capabilities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/na-iakomu-etapi-perebuvaie-peredacha-zbroi-v-mezhakh-initsiatyvy-purl-vidpovid-sybihy\/\">the first aid package under the PURL initiative worth $2 billion has already reached the implementation stage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 has proposed that the European Union conclude a deal to buy and sell ammunition from Serbian warehouses, which he says are &#8220;overcrowded.&#8221; This, Vu\u010di\u0107 said, could help European security and raises the question of the future purpose of the purchased products. This is reported by Cicero . The President of Serbia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":874373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76885,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1315300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}