MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. Dejan Beric, a Serbian sniper who fought in Donbass, says his home in Chekhov, a suburb of Moscow, was deliberately set on fire because of his political views.

"They offered me money to stop making negative remarks [about the Serbian government]. I declined. Right after that, my house in Chekhov was burned down. I know exactly who did that; he was caught on camera, and it was a Serbian national. I was supposed to be home that day, but we went to Magnitogorsk to meet with some people. Normally, I post [about meetings] two or three days later. But this time, I wrote nothing - all my social media accounts showed I was at home," Beric told TASS.

According to him, foreign security services deliberately target Serbs living in Russia who are facing financial difficulties, recruiting them to carry out terrorist attacks. Beric noted that one such individual was offered about 15 million rubles to kill him.

Earlier, Beric told TASS that ordinary Serbs oppose the transfer of Serbian weapons to Ukraine through third countries.

Beric was among the first foreign volunteers to arrive in Donbass to defend the region. In the 1990s, he lived through the conflict in Yugoslavia, and in 1999, he survived NATO bombings. In 2023, he was seriously wounded in the Maryinka area of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a tragedy which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Despite this, he continues to assist Russian soldiers in any way he can.