Lavrov: NATO Bombings of Yugoslavia Aggression Against Sovereign State

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BELGRADE - NATO's bombings of Yugoslavia in 1999 were an aggression and the first attack in Europe on a sovereign state since 1945 that inflicted damage to numerous civilian objects, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"The attack on Yugoslavia was, of course, an aggression. By the way, this was the first armed assault in Europe on a sovereign state since 1945… Looking at what is happening around Syria, our western partners, mainly the US and the UK ones, go in their hysterics to the point of using public insults, including using such words as 'barbarism,' 'war crime.' I remind you that the aggression against… Yugoslavia was associated with a huge number of attacks on civilian objects, including Serbia's television broadcasting facilities, bridges, which were used by civilian passenger trains and many other things," Lavrov told Russia's...