Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić has stated that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone for the first time in two and a half years. In particular, he thanked him for the fact that Serbia would continue to receive cheap Russian gas, Vučić announced on Instagram. The reason for the phone call was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade by the Red Army and Yugoslav partisans during the Second World War on October 20, 1944.