Why did France sell fighter planes to Serbia? French ambassador to Kosovo gives answer

French Ambassador Oliver Guert has said that France has equipped Serbia with fighter planes “Rafare”, for the fact that it wants it to shrink from the dependence on military equipment from Russia.

It's a potential deal, for my knowledge it's not an official agreement. We have discussed with Serbia for years on defence, we have sold similar planes to Croatia. However, the issue of these discussions with Serbia is to shrink their dependence on military equipment from Russia -- that is, to connect with Europe”, Guerot said in Klan Kosova.

“I believe that with the equipment comes many more contacts and there is a kind of leverage, as I said to affect Serbia by contracting dependence from Russia”.

And we have security threats in France like you here”