The Government of Republika Srpska made a decision on Thursday to stop cooperation with the embassies of the United States and Great Britain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to which the American side immediately responded with a message that the entity had taken a "dangerous path".

Termination of cooperation with the American and British diplomats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, previously announced by the President of Republika Srpska. Milorad Dodik, which is under US and UK sanctions from 2017 and 2022, after Washington and London decided to sanction it accusing it of "secessionist rhetoric, undermining the Dayton Agreement and corruption".

Since then, Dodik has been in a constant verbal "war" with the diplomatic representatives of these two influential Western countries, and now he has led the authorities of the Republika Srpska to make a decision to cut off communication with them under the charge of interfering in BiH's internal affairs. The President of RS earlier today threatened that Republika Srpska would declare independence if the high international representative in BiH, Christian Schmidt, imposed the law of property.

"The government will inform the competent authorities of the United States and Great Britain about the termination of cooperation with the embassies of the United States and Great Britain due to their anti-Dayton activities and violations of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," the statement said. the government of the entity that announced it on Thursday with the rationale that this decision also binds the politicians from Republika Srpska who are officials at the state level of BiH.

Dodik himself, in a separate statement, connected this decision with the help that the West gives to Ukraine in the face of Russian intervention, and he commented particularly fiercely on the announcement that Great Britain could supply ammunition with depleted uranium to the Ukrainian army, such as NATO used against Serbian forces in BiH and during the bombing of the former SR Yugoslavia in 1999.

"That is our attitude towards those criminals who are ready to use depleted uranium," said Dodik, who has openly advocated pro-Russian positions since the start of the war in Ukraine.

The American embassy reacted to the decision of the authorities of the Republika Srpska, behind which Dodik stands, with an announcement on social networks in which they indicated that it was "another dangerous step on the wrong path".

"That is the path of isolation and autocratic rule," they told Dodik, adding that he was "desperately trying to maintain his corrupt regime."