Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Aleksandar Vulin blasted Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, saying on Monday that his threats of sanctions against Serbia unless it imposes sanctions on Russia are “stupid and hypocritical”.

Commenting a statement by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis that the European Union should impose sanctions on countries aiding Russia, Vulin said that Landsbergis forgot that Serbs do not attack friends and do not like blackmail, adding that his words are hypocritical because the EU did not impose sanctions on Russian oil and gas.

“If the Lithuanian threats are the language of the EU, then are accession to the EU is even farther of than I thought,” Vulin is quoted as saying in a Ministry press release.

Vulin accused Landsbergis of wanting to force Serbia to enter into someone else’s war. “Serbia chooses its friends but the enemies choose it themselves,” he said.