Published: June 21, 2026 at 08:55 AM
Updated: June 21, 2026 at 02:09 PM
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Vucic again defends the FSB version and targets N1/Nova in the 'sound cannon' dispute
After Novosti's morning account of the Pink, Prva, and Informer appearance, N1 and Danas on June 21 carried a new part of the same line: Aleksandar Vucic again thanked the FSB for its report, said the Russian service would not sign a false opinion, and said he would not sue N1 and Nova, though he called their work a 'history of dishonor.' The card continues yesterday's dispute over prosecutors' version of an alleged simulation of LRAD use at the March 15, 2025 protest.
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N1 and Nova again targeted by Vucic, who thanked the Russian service over the sound-cannon report
(N1 i Nova ponovo na meti Vučića, zahvalio se ruskoj službi zbog izveštaja o zvučnom topu)
N1 writes that Vucic again thanked Russia's FSB for confirming together with the Serbian service that no 'sound cannon' was used at the March 15, 2025 protest. He said that if anyone had fired such a device, he would not remain president for another day, and asked whether FSB director Aleksandar Bortnikov would sign a false opinion. N1 recalls that the March 15 protest was organized at students' call, that during 15 minutes of silence a sound was heard in the 11th minute and the crowd in Ulica kralja Milana split in panic; the authorities denied device use, but it later emerged that police had LRAD 450XL devices and that such vehicles were on Belgrade streets.
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Vucic says Russia's FSB would never sign a false report on the sound cannon
(Vučić kaže da ruska služba FSB nikad ne bi potpisala lažni izveštaj o zvučnom topu)
Danas reports that on June 21 Vucic again thanked the FSB for confirming that no 'sound cannon' was used at the March 15, 2025 Belgrade protest and called the service one of the world's most respected. He repeated that if the device had been used, he would not remain president for another day, and said the FBI and FSB were invited to establish the facts. Asked by an N1 journalist, he said he was sorry she 'had to participate in this'; when Pink asked about suing N1 and Nova, he said he would not sue them, but called their work a 'history of dishonor.'
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Vucic exposes what Novosti calls blockade lies about the sound cannon
(ŽURILO IM SE DA IZAZOVU RAT U SRBIJI: Predsednik Vučić ogolio blokaderske laži o zvučnom topu)
Novosti writes that Aleksandar Vucic, in a joint special program on Pink, Prva, and Informer, said the authorities had not 'shot' at citizens, but that others had 'shot at him' in order, in his words, to destroy independent Serbia. He said VJT had 'gathered the courage' to do what should have been done a year ago, and repeated that a foreign company, a Russian security service, and a U.S. company had denied LRAD use. Vucic tied the dispute to the March 15, 2025 protest, argued the document was not about Autokomanda on January 27 but carried a February 25 registry number, and said the 'Ko si bre ti' portal could launch on June 29, after Vidovdan and the government's June 27 gathering in Belgrade.
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