In October 2023, Serbian citizen Novica Antić, working with the national safety Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, met with Members of the European Parliament. Antić, president of the Serbian soldiers' union, spoke with German Greens MEP Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, Italian Alessandra Moretti of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and Slovakian Vladimir Bilczyk of the European People's Party.