Russian ambassador to BiH, Petar Ivancov, told press in BiH this week that foreign trade minister Boris Tucic’s resignation over a proposed sale of munitions to Ukraine was a “moral act.”
“In this concrete case, this is about export of munitions to an area undergoing armed conflict. According to the criteria of the European Union from 2008, which prescribes conditions for procurement of weapons and munitions, export to regions in which armed conflict is underway is prohibited, because the situation is so additionally complicated,” said the Russian ambassador.
On Tuesday, Ukraine’s ambassador, Oleksandar Levchenko, took aim at Ivanvoc’s assertion.
The Ukrainian ambassador says that Russia “entered occupied parts of Ukraine with thousands of its troops, flew in hundreds of tanks, armored cars, cannons, defensive rocket systems, and numerous other weapons,” but when BiH wants to sell Ukraine some munitions – “officially Moscow suddenly takes a moral stance.”
