"This is just part of the wider provocations we are witnessing," Dodik said, answering a question. All these tales about Russia being an aggressor country that threatens Europe are all lies." "The way I see it, Russia is as close as possible to the concept of a prosperous and wealthy country. Russia launched the special military operation for obvious reasons; it had issued warnings for years and even for decades, but it produced no results. They had been hatching this plot for decades, even centuries," the Republika Srpska’s president added.