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

#NorthMacedonia @balkan_grad
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🇷🇸 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
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🇲🇪 Russian & Serbian friendly party New Serb Democracy to get three ministries in Montenegro's government

#Montenegro @balkan_grad
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🇷🇴🪖🔫 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
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🇭🇷❗️ 5 killed, 5 wounded in shooting at nursing home in eastern Croatia

#Croatia @balkan_grad
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🇭🇷❗️ The author of the shooting is said to be a veteran from Croatian war of independence

#Croatia @balkan_grad
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🇭🇷🇬🇷🇸🇮 Croatia, Greece, Slovenia and other European countries ask Brussels to reach an agreement with Assas and return Syrian refugees to their country

#Croatia #Greece #Slovenia @balkan_grad
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🇧🇦🇷🇸 Bosnian MoD of Bosnia and Herzegovina blocked Serbian helicopter from assisting in extinguishing a fire, saying that its aim is "to undermine the state’s institutions"

Do you agree with this decision?

#Bosnia #BiH #Serbia @balkan_grad
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🇷🇸 (🇧🇦) Republic of Srpska's Dodik assures that no sanctions will be imposed on Russia

"The Republic of Srpska will persist in ensuring that sanctions are not imposed on Russia. Otherwise, Srpska would lose both its honor and a great friend."


Do you think the Republic of Srpska is closer to Russia than Serbia actually is?

#Bosnia #BiH #SrpskaRepublic @balkan_grad
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🇷🇸🇮🇱 OSINT Community notes Serbian aircraft suspected of transporting arms and ammunition to Israel #Serbia #Israel @balkan_grad
🇮🇱🇷🇸 OSINT Community claims 4 Israeli military/cargo planes have recently landed in Serbia to pick up arms and ammunitions

#Israel #Serbia @balkan_grad
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🇷🇸 Spy group dismantled by Serbian Security Service for leaking military secrets from state-owned defense company "Krušik"

#Serbia #Military @balkan_grad
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🇷🇸 Chetniks leader was honored in London on July 21st in a religious ceremony

🔗 Predrag Koluvija
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🇷🇸 (🇧🇦) Bosnia and Herzegovina's Constitutional Court temporarily invalidates Republic of Srpska's Election Law

#Bosnia #BiH #SrpskaRepublic @balkan_grad
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If elected, would Donald Trump end NATO's mission in Kosovo?
Anonymous Poll
23%
Yes
77%
No
🇦🇱🇶🇦 €11M Qatar-funded project in Tirana is building "Qatar Square," in the heart of the Albanian capital

#Albania #Qatar @balkan_grad
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🇭🇷🇲🇪 Croatia declared Montenegrin politicians Andrija Mandić, Milan Knežević and Aleksa Bečić "undesirable"

#Croatia #Montenegro @balkan_grad
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🇲🇰 Largest Albanian party to draft proposal for creating a region grouping Albanian-majority municipalities #NorthMacedonia @balkan_grad
🇲🇰 Largest Albanian party's proposal to federalise North Macedonia for creating an Albanian-majority region caused outrage among North Macedonians and the ruling party

#NorthMacedonia @balkan_grad
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