Mindful of the angry and still-unhealed wounds left by Nato’s bombing of Serbia more than 20 years ago, Ukraine’s ambassador appeared on Serbian television after Russia invaded and bombed his country in the hope of rousing sympathy.
Instead of getting time to explain Ukraine’s misery, however, the ambassador, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, had to sit through rants by pro-Russian Serbian commentators and long videos of Russian president Vladimir Putin denouncing Ukraine as a nest of Nazis. The show, broadcast by pro-government Happy TV, lasted three hours, more than half of which featured Putin.
