🇦🇱🔥❗️ — In Albania, supporters of the Albanian Democratic Party threw Molotov cocktails at the Prime Minister's office in Albania and called for the resignation of Prime-Minister Edi Rama.

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😀🇷🇺 Montenegro bans 20 Russian TV channels, RT and Sputnik included

This is aligning Podgorica, a NATO member, with EU sanctions on Russia over Ukraine.

Moscow has already announced that there will be an "asymmetrical response".

#Montenegro #Russia @balkan_grad

🇬🇷🇹🇷 Greek and Turkish leaders pledge to maintain calm relations and boost trade at NATO summit

#Greece #Turkey #Turkiye @balkan_grad

🇷🇴🇺🇦 Romania and Ukraine sign 10-year Security Agreement to enhance Black Sea security

#Romania #Ukraine @balkan_grad

🇱🇰🇷🇴 Sri Lanka opens its Embassy in Romania

However, both countries already had relations. Curiously, diplomatic contact used to be carried out through the Indian Embassy.

#SriLanka #Romania @balkan_grad

🇪🇺🇷🇸 EU and Serbia to develop a lithium mining project and production chains for batteries essential for electric vehicles

"There will be no project without full protection, and we know it will happen because we are bringing the best experts from Europe to Serbia," said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic ahead of the signing ceremony.

A memorandum of understanding was signed by Serbia's Mining and Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic-Handanovic and EU energy chief Maros Sefcovic after a critical raw materials summit.

#EU #Serbia @balkan_grad

🇷🇸🇺🇦 Serbian and Ukrainian presidents meet at the European Political Community's summit

#Serbia #Ukraine @balkan_grad

🇸🇮🇭🇷🇷🇸 What's your opinion on this?

#Slovenia #Croatia #Serbia @balkan_grad

🇬🇷🇹🇷 Greek border guard shot from Turkish side, possibly gang-related

#Greece #Turkey #Türkiye @balkan_grad

🇷🇸🇮🇱 OSINT Community notes Serbian aircraft suspected of transporting arms and ammunition to Israel

#Serbia #Israel @balkan_grad

🇬🇷🇹🇷 Greek channel First Line informs that the shot guard is a 57-year-old man

He received three impacts in the abdominal area, narrowly escaped death. First assumptions point smuggling activity intended to get migrants successfully crossing the border. Nothing is ruled out at this time though.

#Greece #Turkey #Türkiye @balkan_grad

🇲🇰 Largest Albanian party to draft proposal for creating a region grouping Albanian-majority municipalities

#NorthMacedonia @balkan_grad

🇷🇸 Serbian President Vučić warns that the world is on the brink of another great war

"We are slowly sliding as a continent and the world towards disaster.

Wartime governments are created. Look at the demands of Europe’s largest opposition parties. Of the 20 requests, 10 are related to war.

In terms of weapons and everything else. Everything is preparation for war. Everything."

#Serbia @balkan_grad

🇲🇪 Russian & Serbian friendly party New Serb Democracy to get three ministries in Montenegro's government

#Montenegro @balkan_grad

🇷🇴🪖🔫 2024 is a big year for the Romanian Army. Here are the most important acquisition to be made in 2024:

🔸 Romania should forward a Letter of Request for Letter of Agreement to the Pentagon for the 6.5 billion USD contract for 32 F-35 new generation fighter jets and logistical support.

🔸 231 MANPADs (MAN Portable Air Defense) and Mistral-3 missiles (SHORAD - Short Range Air Defense) worth 662 million EURs

🔸 60 AIM-9X "Sidewinder" short-range air-to-air missiles used by aircraft such as the F-16 worth 40 million USD

🔸 66 AIM-120 AMRAAM Beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles/surface-to-air missiles also compatible with the F-16 worth 150 million USD

🔸 400 GBU-39B/SDB glide bombs, compatible with the F-16 worth 60 million USD

🔸Laser-guided missiles for the Watchkeeper X UAVs

🔸 25 SwitchBlade 300 loitering munitions (suicide/kamikaze) drones worth 176 million Romanian lei (RON)

🔸 More SwitchBlade 600 loitering munitions (suicide/kamikaze) drones

🔸 33 FGM-148 "Javelin" anti-tank missile worth 66 million USD

🔸 Unspecified number of ATACMS missiles for the HIMARS system worth 82.8 million USD

Other acquisitions which will be finalised in the coming years are:

🔹 218 units of sapping equipment, of various kinds, with a budget of 17.5 billion RON

🔹 3 unspecified CRAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery and Missile) Systems designed to detect and destroy, or deflect incoming enemy projectiles with a 2.5 billion RON budget

🔹 Mobile electronic warfare system with a 4.7 billion RON budget

🔹 Two SBAMD-TC anti-missile and aircraft command centers with a 730 million RON budget

🔹 Modernisation (or acquisition?) of 19 Gap-Filler radars (Detection & Search radars) with a 1.8 billion RON budget

🔹 12 passive radars for airspace surveillance with a 441 million RON budget

🔹 Two Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) worth 300 million EURs for the Romanian Navy

🔹 17 Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) systems, 4 such systems for 4 brigades and 13 others for 13 battalions worth 1.5 billion RON

🇭🇷❗️ 5 killed, 5 wounded in shooting at nursing home in eastern Croatia

#Croatia @balkan_grad