In today’s conversation, we bring you an interview with Nebojsa Lazic, a man with an exceptionally rich and complex professional biography. As a member of special brigades during the war years, Lazic went through some of the most difficult operations and situations a soldier can experience. Today, three decades later, he continues his service in peacetime — as an active member of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska, where he performs responsible duties within the security system.
Given the experience he carries from the war, as well as his many years of work within police structures, Nebojsa Lazic represents a rare individual who simultaneously understands the military, intelligence, and security spheres, as well as the political and social processes unfolding around them. In the interview that follows, Lazic speaks openly about the current accusations and campaigns directed against the state leadership of Serbia, as well as the broader political-security context in the region and the United States.
How do you comment on Mr. Brkic’s claims about an alleged connection between President Aleksandar Vucic and Volodymyr Zelensky regarding arms trade and alleged money laundering?
Mr. Brkic’s claims about supposed criminal ties between President Vucic and President Zelensky are completely unfounded. As the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic has a constitutional and state responsibility to protect and develop the defense industry. Serbia legally exports weapons, which is a fully legitimate and lawful activity practiced by many countries in Europe and around the world.
Stories about “money laundering,” “secret agreements,” and “corruption” are based solely on insinuations without a single piece of concrete evidence. Serbia has never signed an agreement to sell weapons to Ukraine, which is very easy to verify. It is clear that this is a politically motivated fabrication aimed at personally discrediting President Vucic.
How do you comment on Mr. Brkic’s claims that President Vucic is involved in drug trafficking and connected to Goran Gogic, as well as allegedly influencing a court case in the United States?
These claims go beyond the realm of political struggle and enter the sphere of absurdity. Connecting the head of a state with international narco-cartels and cocaine smuggling into the United States — the most powerful country in the world — is so illogical that even Brkic himself does not seem convinced of what he is saying.
If there were even one percent of truth to these allegations, President Vucic would have been arrested upon his first entry into the United States, including his recent visit to Miami. The claim that the President of Serbia is influencing the U.S. judiciary or attempting to bribe jurors is completely detached from reality and demonstrates the level of unseriousness behind these accusations.
How do you comment on the claim that President Vucic tried to pay two million dollars to enter the Republican National Convention and that he was removed from Mar-a-Lago?
It is completely untrue that President Vucic attempted to “enter” the convention. As a lawyer and long-time politician, he knows very well that interfering in the internal affairs of the United States is forbidden and unacceptable.
The President was supposed to attend another event at a hotel in Miami, which was confirmed to me by people close to President Trump. Everything else is a fabrication.
How do you comment on the claims that Belgrade was involved in rigging the elections in the United States?
Official Belgrade has nothing to do with the U.S. electoral process. The claim that Serbia is influencing American elections is absurd — if Russia or China cannot do it, how could Serbia?
If there were any technical attempts to disrupt the electoral process through cyber-attacks, such actions could only be the work of individual hackers using IP addresses from anywhere in the world, including Serbia. President Vucic has absolutely nothing to do with that, nor does Brkic offer any evidence whatsoever.
How do you comment on the claim that President Vucic controls Milorad Dodik?
Serbia and the Republic of Srpska have historically close and natural relations. Serbia is a guarantor of the Dayton Agreement and has always maintained institutional cooperation with RS — regardless of who served as President of Serbia.
Portraying this cooperation as “subservience” is a malicious interpretation. Good bilateral relations are not a sign of control, but of responsible state policy.
Mr. Brkic claims that Slavisa Kokeza is a protected witness in the United States, and that President Vucic is responsible for executions and 120 murders. How do you comment on that?
These claims have no basis whatsoever. Slavisa Kokeza does not live in the United States but in the Dominican Republic. There is no evidence that he or Sasa Vujusic hold the status of protected witnesses.
The claim about “120 murders” is so unrealistic that it can barely even be categorized as a political statement. For someone to be responsible for 120 murders, there would have to be at least an investigation, names, or any form of evidence — and there is none.
How do you comment on the claims that Vucic tried to bribe or deceive President Trump through Kushner?
These claims belong to the realm of political fiction. President Vucic has never attempted to influence President Trump, nor the U.S. Congress or Senate, and there is not a single piece of evidence to support such allegations.
How would you comment on the video circulated by numerous portals, in which Srdjan Nogo is seen speaking with individuals he claims are from President Donald Trump’s administration, allegedly recorded on an airplane?
President Trump’s administration does not operate in that manner. Their meetings are not recorded, published, or shared with the public, nor is there any practice of conducting improvised video conversations on airplanes. What is seen in the video does not correspond to the protocols of the U.S. administration.
For that reason, it is quite clear that the video is staged — an attempt to create the illusion of contact with people from Trump’s administration, even though they simply do not conduct themselves in that way.
Brkic links President Vucic to an alleged “human safari” in Sarajevo during the war. How do you comment on these claims?
Brkic’s statement that Vucic should be “arrested without evidence” speaks more to his motives than to any facts.
As someone who was present on that battlefield, I can confirm that no such events took place. At that time, Vucic was a journalist responsible for communication with foreign media, just as the other side had its own propaganda teams. Turning that into a war crime is not only senseless but dangerous.
Do you have anything to add at the end?
When all of these accusations are viewed together, it becomes clear that this is an orchestrated attempt to discredit the President of Serbia, as well as an effort to inflict damage on the state of Serbia itself.
Linking the president of one’s own country to international drug trafficking, election manipulation in the United States, corruption, murders, and war crimes — all without a single piece of evidence — is not political struggle, but deliberate harm to the state.
This speaks to malice, immaturity, and deep personal hatred, not to facts. In political life, as in a state governed by the rule of law, one fundamental principle applies: a person is innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately, for Brkic it is the opposite — Vucic is guilty even when it is proven that he is innocent.