Vucic said that Serbian warehouses are full of ammunition, and the country is “producing even more,” in particular mortar shells.
Serbia, according to its president, produces more ammunition than France.
Vučić noted that he does not want to be considered “the one who constantly supplies ammunition to the warring parties,” but “in Europe, ammunition is needed.”
Therefore, as Vucic pointed out, he invited “friends from the EU” to conclude a purchase and sale agreement with Serbia and “take everything that is” in Serbian warehouses.
According to Vucic, this “would be a phenomenal contribution” that Serbia “could make to European security.”
When asked whether these ammunition could be used in Ukraine, Vucic replied: “Buyers will be able to do whatever they want with them.”
According to the Serbian president, Belgrade “just needs a long-term contract” to be able to plan.
At the same time, Vucic repeated that Serbia is a “militarily neutral country.”
Belgrade is still waiting for a final response from Brussels to the ammunition proposal, the Serbian President concluded.
Context
The first reports that Serbia could supply weapons to Ukraine appeared in 2023. The Serbian side denied this information. The then Serbian Defense Minister Milos Vucevic said that the country sells weapons to third countries not related to the war, and there is always the possibility that “in some magical way” the weapons could end up in the conflict territory, but Serbia is not involved in this.
In June 2024, the Financial Times wrote that since the full-scale invasion of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation in February 2022, the export of ammunition from Serbia, supplied to Ukraine through third parties, reached approximately €800 million.
At the end of May 2025, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service accused Serbia of supplying ammunition to Ukraine contrary to the neutrality that Belgrade declared. Moscow called it “an attempt to shoot Russia in the back.” Vucic denied this and announced the creation of a working group together with the Russian Federation “to establish the facts.”
On June 23, the Russian Federation again accused Serbia of secretly supplying Ukraine with ammunition using “workarounds,” the Russian propaganda agency RBC wrote. Vučić stated that Serbia had suspended the export of ammunition.
