—🇭🇷/🇹🇷 NEW: Croatia begins testing newly delivered Bayraktar TB2 drones after successful training in Turkey.

In the coming days, Croatia will conduct day and night tests nationwide with all six armed drones and their full equipment, enhancing combat, border surveillance, reconnaissance, and wildfire protection capabilities.

These advanced systems are used by 37 countries, including several NATO members.

📰 Source: Ivan Anušić

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—🇷🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: Vučić rejects Russian media claims Serbia will purge pro-Russian officials under Western pressure.

Serbian president called TASS report “nonsense,” reaffirming Belgrade’s refusal to impose anti-Russian sanctions or alter current policy.

TASS had reported, citing a Serbian source, that planned dismissals of pro-Russian ministers would remove the government’s ability to block sanctions against Moscow.

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—🔥🇲🇪 NEW: Massive wildfires spread across Montenegro, prompting NATO assistance request.

Fires have engulfed multiple municipalities including the capital Podgorica, killing one Montenegrin Army soldier and injuring another during firefighting operations.

The government warns its resources are insufficient due to extreme heat, drought, and strong winds, and has appealed to NATO for aerial support while receiving help from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and the EU.

📰 Source: VREME

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—🤝🇲🇪/🇷🇸 WATCH: In Montenegro, people are greeting Serbian firefighting helicopters with Serbian flags in their hands.

Massive wildfires have swept through the country, and neighboring Serbia is the only one with specialized aircrafts able to reach the remote areas.

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—🇷🇸 (🇧🇦) /🇺🇸 Milorad Dodik:

The truth about the Republic of Srpska is breaking through in the new world order, where politics is returning to common sense, and our people, despite decades of pressure, are welcoming a time of justice — with friends like Rod Blagojevich, who loudly carry our story.

🔗 Milorad Dodik on X

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—NOTE: Rod Blagojevich is the former Democratic governor of Illinois (2003–2009), who was impeached, convicted on multiple corruption charges, and served eight years in prison before receiving a full pardon from President Donald Trump in 2025.

Recently, he has taken on a new role as a paid lobbyist for Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he publicly supports political leader Milorad Dodik.

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🇷🇴🤝🇺🇦 Romanian president, Nicușor Dan, will travel to Kiev this autumn and meet with Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky.

In the post where he announced his visit, Dan pledged unconditional support to Zelensky in his struggle to derail American-Russian peace negotiations and continue the war until the Ukrainian army disintegrates due to desertions and combat losses.

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—🇷🇸 (🇧🇦) /🇨🇳 NEW: Dodik hosts Chinese Foreign Ministry Advisor Wu Boao on first visit to Republika Srpska and Europe.

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—🇸🇮 NEW: Slovenia has passed a law legalizing euthanasia (assisted dying), becoming the first Balkan country to do so.

The bill does not allow assisted dying for individuals suffering from mental illness.

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