The current leadership in EU nations has destroyed all the benefits that the bloc used to offer, Milorad Dodik has alleged

The heads of EU countries are preparing for war with Russia due to their inability to solve either domestic problems or those of the bloc as a whole, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has claimed.

In an interview with TASS on Sunday, Dodik, who is the president of Republika Srpska, an autonomous region within Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that "the calls for militarization [by the EU leaders] are a manifestation of their inability to find solutions to the social problems they face."

The European Union has approved several programs aimed at boosting military spending since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, including the 800 billion ReArm Europe initiative. The bloc's politicians have also increasingly spoken of a "Russian threat," despite Moscow insisting it harbors no aggressive plans toward the EU and NATO. Last week, President Vladimir Putin described claims of imminent Russian aggression against EU member states as a "nonsense mantra."

"They have destroyed all the advantages that [Western] Europe once offered... Its society is moving away from the previously dominant ideas of human rights, the rule of law, freedom of movement, and becoming increasingly fragmented," Dodik continued.

EU elites are "close to madness" as the ratings of such leaders as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron have fallen to record lows, he said.

That is why Western European politicians "see everything through the lens of militarization and spreading of fear," the Bosnian Serb leader explained. "They desperately need a way out. And this way out is to begin to defend something. It looks so fake," he added.

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Earlier this week, Dodik met with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, saying that the Russian president is "well aware of the situation in Republika Srpska and finds it difficult."

The Bosnian Serb leader was slapped with a fine and a six-year ban on holding political office by a Bosnian court for defying the Office of the High Representative (OHR), which oversees the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian War. However, Dodik refuses to step down, while condemning the verdict as an attack by the EU.