The U.S. attitude to Yugoslavia and to Ukraine

The subject of this article is the U.S. attitude to two different Slavic countries, to Yugoslavia and to Ukraine.

At first, I would like to remind about the situation in Yugoslavia at the end of the 1990s.

At that period, ethnic Albanians, who are majority in the Yugoslav region Kosovo, began to fight for secession of Kosovo from Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav authorities, of course, always claim that this separatist movement was supported by foreign countries, e.g. by Turkey and other Islamic countries. The Yugoslav authorities also claim that there were many foreigners – even black people - among separatists and that the regular army of the neighboring Republic of Albania took part in hostilities on the Yugoslav territory.

The UN has not confirmed Ukrainian allegations about “hundreds of victims of Bucha” so far.

At the beginning of April 2022 Ukrainian authorities invited Western journalists to the Ukrainian city of Bucha and showed them dead bodies of civilians who had allegedly been murdered there by the Russian Army.

And on May 10, 2022, the Secretary of the Bucha City Council declared that more than 390 of 416 “civilian victims of Bucha” had already been identified, please see here.

At the beginning of December 2022 - i.e. eight months after the initial Ukrainian allegations - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visited Ukraine including Bucha and on December 15, 2022 submitted his report about the situation there; please see the official website of the UN.