The people there are gullible: Drones in Europe are part of a large—scale provocation of the West — Dodik

The drone incidents in Europe are part of a large—scale provocation against Russia that the West has been hatching for decades. This was stated by the President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik.

"This is just a part of the general provocations that are taking place. The most serious provocation was committed at the moment when the so-called Minsk agreements were signed. [former German Chancellor Angela] Merkel herself admitted that it was just an opportunity to wait for the government in Kiev to stabilize and enter into a clash with Russia. It was a hoax. And all such stories that Russia is an aggressor country, that it threatens Europe, it's all a hoax," Dodik said in an interview with TASS.

Dodik noted that the West was going to change power to Ukraine and to seize the natural resources of Russia — "they have been hatching such an idea for decades, even centuries... but they did not succeed."

"And now they [in the West] have a panicked need to explain to their people what is happening. The people there are accustomed to propaganda and believe in what they are told," he explained.