Reference News Network August 24 report, according to the Russian Sputnik News Agency August 24 report, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenco told Sputnik that the West is trying to bring Serbia into NATO, partly to escape responsibility for the bombing in 1999.

Botsan-Kharchenco said: "The West also hopes that Serbia will eventually turn the page (referring to the NATO bombing incident). Come and cooperate with NATO. They talk about how to gradually bring Serbia into the NATO orbit, making it a member of NATO. They need to do this... This will cover their guilt and aggression in 1999."

The report states that in 1999, armed conflicts between separatist forces in Kosovo and Serbian security forces led to NATO bombing the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (short for Yugoslavia, which consisted of Serbia and Montenegro). This military operation was carried out without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council, based on the claim by Western countries that Yugoslavia was suspected of "ethnic cleansing" in the Kosovo autonomous region, causing a humanitarian disaster locally. The NATO air strikes lasted from March 24 to June 10, 1999, resulting in more than 2,500 deaths.

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