Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 confirmed today that members of the NSATU operation will indeed also be on the territory of Ukraine. I quote: \u2018If NATO\u2019s activity is a support activity \u2013 to what? Arming and training. Whom? Ukraine and the Ukrainian army. Therefore in this NSATU activity there will be a few liaison officers that will certainly be in Ukraine, 100 percent will be in Ukraine\u2019. \u2018They will indeed be in Ukraine\u2019, to repeat the words of that dishonourable person who until yesterday lied to the Croatian people that members of the NSATU operation will exclusively be on the territory of NATO member states, and no way in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the NATO operation for which, as Commander in Chief of the Croatian Armed Forces, I did not give my prior consent, a mission in which Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 wants to send members of the Croatian Armed Forces. I did not give my prior consent to Croatia\u2019s participation in the NSATU operation because I will not allow Croatian troops to participate in a mission whose members, as Plenkovi\u0107 confirmed, ‘will definitely be in Ukraine.’ And that is what Plenkovi\u0107 wanted to conceal from Croatia until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will remind of the focus areas of the NSATU operation, which are not \u2013 as Plenkovi\u0107 wishes to present \u2013 mail delivery. The main task of NATO troops in the operation will be development of the armed forces, coordination of equipment, coordination of training and logistics equipment for the Ukrainian army. If it\u2019s not clear to Plenkovi\u0107, those are all activities of military support to a country at war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides lying, Plenkovi\u0107 is now also manipulating with information from a classified document: he is deceiving the Croatian people when saying that \u2018a few liaison officers\u2019 will go to Ukraine. Everyone, me included, who had insight into that document \u2013 which, and it should be known, was drafted by the Defence Ministry \u2013 knows that it is not about \u2018a few liaison officers\u2019 or about mail carriers, as cynically says Plenkovi\u0107. I guess it\u2019s clear now why he wanted at all cost to prevent MPs in the Defence Committee to access that document: so that he can further manipulate with the facts and deceive the Croatian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is willing to manipulate to the extent as to convince people that the deployment of NATO mission members to a country at war is something ‘notorious,’ which for him is evidently usual. This is the first time since the beginning of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine that NATO members are organizing and coordinating their departure to the territory of a state at war that is not a member of the Alliance. This is a precedent. And what Plenkovi\u0107 is doing is notorious, he wants to drag Croatia into the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to hide the truth, Plenkovi\u0107 first sent his Defence Minister to lie in the Croatian Parliament so Anu\u0161i\u0107 \u2013 who also had the same information \u2013 looked the MPs straight in the eyes, deceiving them. This was not enough, so he had the Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces come to his office and made him sign a false statement as proof of his lies. He embarrassed the Chief of the GS of the CAF who, evidently under pressure yesterday, signed the following statement: ‘Territorially, the implementation of the OPLAN is exclusively on the territory of NATO member states.’ And already today, Plenkovi\u0107 refuted him, claiming that NATO officers ‘will certainly be in Ukraine.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plenkovi\u0107 harnessed all available henchmen in the Croatian Parliament to defend his indefensible deceptions. And now \u2013 hiding in the bushes, from a separate command post far from the Croatian Parliament \u2013 he cowardly betrayed them and left them to explain what his admission that the NSATO members \u2018will certainly be in Ukraine\u2019 really means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I withheld my prior consent for Croatia’s participation in NSATU guided solely by Croatian interests and concern for Croatian soldiers. As Commander in chief of the Croatian Armed Forces I had information at my disposal that reinforced my position, but I did not bring into question the right of other NATO member states to voluntarily participate in the NSATU operation. Thus I responsibly positioned Croatia as a reliable member, but first and foremost as an equal member that considers its interests. Unlike Plenkovi\u0107, who has, for who knows how many times, pushed Croatia in favour of foreign interests as a submissive state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I reiterate in order to clarify to everyone: I gave my prior consent for 12 NATO, EU and UN operations that are peace missions, but not for the 13th<\/sup> one, NSATU, because Croatia unconditionally retains the right to its stance on participating in missions to assist states at war that are not members of the Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 confirmed today that members of the NSATU operation will indeed also be on the territory of Ukraine. I quote: \u2018If NATO\u2019s activity is a support activity \u2013 to what? Arming and training. Whom? Ukraine and the Ukrainian army. Therefore in this NSATU activity there will be a few liaison officers that will certainly be in Ukraine, 100 percent will be in Ukraine\u2019. \u2018They will indeed be in Ukraine\u2019, to repeat the words of that dishonourable person who until yesterday lied to the Croatian people that members of the NSATU operation will exclusively be on the territory of NATO member states, and no way in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34182,"template":"","news-cat":[12],"class_list":["post-34209","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-cat-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n