Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has responded to accusations from Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service that Serbian defense enterprises continue to supply ammunition to Ukraine, calling some of the allegations false. In recent remarks cited by the local media, Vučić said he’s discussed the matter with Vladimir Putin privately and in the presence of the two nations’ diplomats. “We have formed a working group with our Russian partners to establish the facts [regarding the supplies]. Some of the things being alleged are simply untrue,” the Serbian president stated.

Vučić added that he would order the cancellation of contracts for misuse if it became known that the final recipient of the weapons would be a warring party.

At the same time, he noted that Serbian factories “must operate,” as the country employs 23,000 people in the state defense industry alone. “If we cannot export to America, Turkey, Arab countries, then excuse me, where can we export weapons?” Vučić said.

On May 29, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service claimed that Serbian defense enterprises continue to supply ammunition to Kyiv “despite Belgrade’s official neutrality.” Moscow alleges that the supplies are delivered using falsified end-user certificates and intermediary countries, including the Czech Republic, Poland, and Bulgaria.

In June 2024, The Financial Times reported that Serbia has been “discreetly stepping up sales of ammunition to the west that ends up bolstering the defense of Ukraine.” At the time, Aleksandar Vučić called this figure “generally accurate,” indicating to journalists that claims of 800 million euros (roughly $909 million) in ammunition exports to Ukraine were “broadly accurate.” Serbia’s president also described the sales as “a part of our economic revival,” saying that it wasn’t “his job” to worry about where the ammunition ended up.