“I'm not surprised, difficulties arose.

It was not a big surprise, we watched it every day, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

Vučić added that he did not expect such a scale of "hysteria around Serbia."

“They don’t dare to say a word to Russia and decided to mock little Serbia,” the Serbian leader said.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, confirmed that a number of European countries closed their airspace to Lavrov's plane, which was heading to Serbia.

Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko said that the planned visit of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry to Serbia was postponed. 

Lavrov called "inconceivable" the decision of a number of European countries not to let his plane through to Serbia.