Dodik: Europe Seeks to Divide Russia Using Ukraine as Foothold

Russia timely recognized the threat from the West, which intended to seize Russian resources, and justifiably launched the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Milorad Dodik, President of the Republika Srpska (RS) within Bosnia and Herzegovina, said.

The politician explained that Western countries were initially involved in the conflict in Ukraine. The armed conflict on Ukrainian territory is essentially a confrontation between Russia and the West, Dodik believes.

Milorad Dodik earlier said that Europe aimed to divide Russia into parts and seize its resources, with Ukraine serving as a foothold for this. According to him, Ukraine became an independent state "only due to the naivety of Russia at that time."

Dodik believes that such a "hybrid state cannot function." He emphasized that Russia must achieve all the objectives it has set in Ukraine.

"This concerns territories, demilitarization, and denazification throughout the entire territory of Ukraine," he concluded.

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Milorad Dodik (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Додик, pronounced [mîloraːd dǒdik]; born 12 March 1959) is a Bosnian Serb politician currently serving as the 8th president of Republika Srpska since 2022, a position he previously held from 2010 to 2018. He also served as the 7th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2022. Dodik has been the president of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) since its formation in 1996 and has held several political offices within Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served as the prime minister of Republika Srpska from 1998 to 2001 and again from 2006 to 2010.