—🇷🇸/🇦🇪 NEW: Serbian FM said 6,800 Serbian citizens currently reside in the UAE and conveyed Belgrade’s solidarity with Abu Dhabi after Iran’s recent missile strikes on the Gulf state.

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—🇷🇸🤝🇮🇱 NEW: Republika Srpska has reinforced security measures across the entity to ensure a rapid response to potential terrorist threats, with particular focus on the Jewish Cultural Center in Banja Luka and other Jewish community sites.
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—🇭🇷❌🇷🇸 NEW: Croatian Defence Minister warns that Serbia now fields “highly complex and expensive offensive systems” acquired over the past four to six years and says Zagreb must be ready “to protect our borders, living space, and people.”

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—🇭🇷/🇮🇶/🇱🇧 NEW: Croatian President Zoran Milanović has ordered the withdrawal of 7 Croatian soldiers from Iraq and 1 from Lebanon, instructing the Chief of the General Staff to begin the evacuation immediately amid heightened tensions over military action in Iran.

➡️ Milanović, who had already halted military cooperation between the Croatian Armed Forces and Israel last year, framed the move as a step to protect Croatian personnel and warned that unilateral use of force without a UN mandate threatens regional and European security.

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🇮🇱🤝🇱🇧✝️❌🇱🇧❗️ — As the Israeli military begins a ground operation in southern Lebanon, Christian communities in the region have stated that they do not align themselves with Hezbollah and simply wish to stay in their towns and villages.

—🇺🇸🤝🇷🇸❌🇮🇷 NEW: Former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, published a statement praising Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for “full support” to the US in its war with Iran and accusing the Bosnian Federation of trying to expel Serbs to create a “unitary Muslim state” in Europe, with the post explicitly labeled as material distributed on behalf of Republika Srpska.

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—❗️☢️🇫🇷🤝🇬🇷 URGENT: President Emmanuel Macron has announced that Greece will join France’s “advanced deterrence” posture, bringing Athens under the French nuclear umbrella and formally tying Greek security to French strategic forces.

➡️ This move is framed as a powerful signal in the Eastern Mediterranean, with implications for deterring potential threats in the region, including from Türkiye.

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—🇪🇺📞🇹🇷 NEW: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she held a “good” phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday night, stressing that both sides are deeply affected by regional instability and are in close contact with key partners to pursue de-escalation.

➡️ She welcomed Türkiye’s readiness to mediate, underlined that “diplomacy is the only viable path forward,” and noted Ankara’s preparations for possible migration fallout, saying EU–Turkish cooperation on Syria continues as regional and global stability is at stake.

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🇫🇷🪖❗️ — French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants "to build a coalition to resume and secure traffic in these essential maritime routes" as in the Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal, Red Sea

—✈️ 🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 NEW: Serbia has offered aircraft to evacuate Bosnia and Herzegovina citizens from the Middle East amid ongoing security risks, alongside repatriating its own nationals.

➡️ President Vučić stated Serbia's fleet—the largest in the region—is available, with additional flights planned as conditions allow and passenger safety prioritized.

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—🇷🇸📞🇨🇾 NEW: Serbia's FM Marko Đurić spoke today by phone with Cyprus FM Constantinos Kombos about current events and the conflict escalation in the Middle East.

➡️ They exchanged views on regional circumstances, stressing the need for quick peace and stability restoration.

➡️ Đurić voiced full solidarity with Cyprus and condemned threats to the island's security.

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