EU and NATO countries bear responsibility for the bloodshed during the disintegration of Yugoslavia, including war crimes during Croatia’s Operation Storm in 1995, as they contributed to the disintegration of the unified Yugoslav state, the Russian Embassy in Serbia said in a statement. NATO and European Union states bear particular responsibility for the bloodshed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, whose intervention contributed to the country's disintegration and the escalation of interethnic conflicts," the Russian embassy stated. The Russian diplomatic mission emphasized that NATO and the EU "continue to be guided by double standards, disregarding the principles of equality and justice." The Russian embassy emphasized that the West is ignoring the suffering of the Serbian people, while giving a "completely different" political and media treatment to similar events in other regions. The Russian embassy emphasized that eliminating this threat to the Russian population of Donbass and Novorossiya is the most important condition for a lasting resolution of the Ukrainian crisis.