In Serbia, the leader of the extreme right -wing pro -Russian organization “People’s Patrol” Damyan Knezhevich was arrested after an anti -government action held by him on Wednesday, February 15. The detention of Knezhevich and two other associates are reported on the organization page on social networks.
Knezhevich is known for nationalist, anti -immigrant and anti -Western rhetoric, and in recent months it has been actively promoting the image of the Wagner PMC in the Balkans.
on the protest of the “People’s Patrol” protest organized by him in Belgrade, the authorities demanded that the authorities abandon negotiations on the normalization of relations with the edge of Kosovo, which proclaimed independence from Serbia in 2008. Employees of the gendarmerie did not allow the protesters to enter the building, where the presidential office is located. Also, the participants in the action threw the building with eggs, shouting insults to President Alexander Vucic. On the clothes of some protesters, the letters Z, which became the symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and W, which are used as a strip of PMC, “Wagner”.