BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik called Ukraine's defenders an "armed gang" on Wednesday, using the rhetoric used by Russian President Vladimir Putin when explaining his motives for attacking a neighbouring country. He also condemned Boris Johnson's statement comparing Sarajevo and Kharkiv.

In a statement to Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) entity media, Dodik, who is a Serb member of the tripartite Presidency, angrily commented on a statement by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said on Tuesday that Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities reminded him of the shelling of Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 siege.

(VIDEO) Speaking at a joint news conference with NATO's Jens Stoltenberg and Estonian PM Kaja Kallasduring during the visit to Estonia's Tapa Military Base, British PM #BorisJohnson compared the heavy shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine with #Sarajevo 'Markale' market shelling https://t.co/1s8IzBiX2E

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Dodik responded a day later by saying that, by recalling the events in Sarajevo during the war in BiH, Johnson was right “if he meant armed gangs like the ones walking around Kyiv today, which can be seen on social networks.”

Dodik ignored the fact that over 11,000 people were killed during the three-and-a-half-year siege of the Bosnian capital, adding that it was a “big concentration camp for Serbs”.

“I don't know how the British Prime Minister didn’t remember Republika Srpska and Serbia, which they bombed for months without any legal basis and without any reason,” Dodik also claimed.