Ukraine denies Serbia’s allegations of bomb threats.
Ukraine has denied allegations by Serbia that the country’s secret service is behind a series of fake bomb threats on Air Serbia flights to Russia.
Some flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg have been delayed or forced to return to Belgrade following anonymous bomb threats since the start of Russian aggression in Ukraine on February 24.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed that foreign intelligence services in Ukraine and an unidentified EU country are responsible, without providing evidence.
In addition, other Serbian officials have claimed that threatening emails were sent to Serbia from either Ukraine or Poland.
But Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko dismissed the allegations as “baseless” and “untrue.”
“Vucic’s statements about Ukraine’s alleged involvement in bomb threats against Serbian air carriers flying to Russia are false,” Nikolenko said in a statement.
Serbia has voted in favor of UN resolutions condemning Russia’s bloody massacre in Ukraine, but has so far refused to join international sanctions against its allies in Moscow, citing its neutral status.
Only Serbia’s national airline and Turkish airlines have not joined EU flight sanctions against Russia.
Vucic said that although Air Serbia flights to Russia were not making a profit, they would continue “as a matter of our principle”.