—✈️ 🇭🇷 NEW: The Croatian government repatriated 870 of its citizens free of charge from crisis-hit areas in the Middle East, covering the full expense of €856,000.
➡️ Operations also brought back 101 foreign nationals from countries including Germany, Serbia, France, and Slovenia.
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—🇷🇸 ❌ 🇽🇰 NEW: Serbia's oldest cultural-scientific body, Matica Srpska, called on authorities to raise the issue internationally to keep the University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica—serving 7,000 students and 1,000 staff—within Serbia's education system.
➡️ The group warns Kosovo's Law on Foreigners, set for March 15 enforcement, risks "unpredictable consequences" like a Serb exodus, violating UNSC Resolution 1244.
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—❗️🇷🇴 🤝 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 URGENT: Romania has approved a US request for temporary access to the Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, Europe’s largest NATO installation, to support operations in the Middle East, including aerial refueling, fighter jet deployments and the stationing of up to 500 additional personnel.
➡️ Bucharest stresses the deployment is defensive and tied to monitoring and support missions rather than basing offensive strike assets on Romanian soil.
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—🇮🇷 /🇷🇴 /🇧🇬 /🇬🇷 NEW: Iran’s Khorramshahr and Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, with ranges of up to around 2,000 km, can reach southeastern Europe, putting Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece within potential striking distance.
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—🇭🇷 /🇪🇺 NEW: Croatian President Zoran Milanović said Europe is “a pack of house cats, each going its own way — not wolves,” attacking the EU’s security posture and cohesion.
➡️ He added that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz “just smiled” as US President Donald Trump criticized Spain, underscoring divisions inside Europe over defense and transatlantic ties.
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—🇧🇬 /🇱🇧 NEW: Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement strongly advising against all travel to Lebanon and urging Bulgarian citizens currently in the country to leave immediately due to the deteriorating security situation in the wider Middle East region.
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—🇦🇪 📞 🇷🇺 /🇷🇸 NEW: UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed has held separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on the escalating Iran war and wider Middle East crisis.
➡️ The conversations focused on regional security, the impact of Iranian attacks and the need to halt escalation and return to diplomacy.
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—🇺🇸 /🇽🇰 /🇷🇸 NEW: Former US envoy Richard Grenell called the Kurti/Osmani leadership in Kosovo “a disaster,” saying “we all see it clearly,” in remarks referring to the Pristina authorities as separatist Kosovo leaders.
➡️ The comments highlight ongoing US criticism of Kosovo’s current government amid stalled Serbia–Kosovo dialogue.
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—🇲🇩 ❌ 🇲🇩 Transnistria accuses Moldova of “Romanianization” and gas blackmail as crisis deepens
➡️ Transnistrian officials are accusing Moldova’s pro‑EU government of “Romanianization” and “fascism glorification” while warning that new Moldovan taxes and rules amount to economic blackmail amid a looming gas cutoff that has already forced local industries to shut down and power plants to switch to coal.
➡️ President Maia Sandu is demanding the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the breakaway region as gas supplies risk running out within days due to global disruptions and payment disputes.
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—✈️ 🇧🇬 /🇬🇷 NEW: Joint training flights by the Bulgarian and Greek air forces will take place in Bulgarian airspace under a decree allowing two Greek F-16s, their crews, and, if needed, up to 50 support personnel to enter and stay in the country, the Defence Ministry announced.
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—🇮🇱 ✈️ 🇷🇸 NEW: Flight trackers and open-source monitoring suggest two possible Serbia–Israel military cargo rotations in a single day, with Challenge Airlines IL Boeing 767-300 (reg. 4X-IAJ) operating Tel Aviv–Belgrade–Tel Aviv as LOY791 and LOY792 on repeat.
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—🇷🇸 ❌ 🇭🇷 NEW: Serbia issues high-level travel warning for Croatia.
➡️ Serbia has placed Croatia under its second-highest travel warning, advising citizens to travel only if necessary and to avoid potential provocations, citing recent incidents, tensions and what it calls unfavourable security conditions.
➡️ Croatia has rejected the move as unfounded, stressing that it is an EU, NATO and Schengen member that consistently ranks among the safest countries in Europe and remains a popular tourist destination.
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—🇷🇺 ❌ 🇪🇺 🇽🇰 NEW: Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zaharova stated that, under Serbia’s constitution and UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Kosovo and Metohija remain an “inseparable part” of Serbia with wide autonomy, adding that the EU has “for years been blackmailing Serbs” while giving “free rein” to the authorities in Priština.
➡️ She commented after Serbia’s Foreign Ministry denied claims from parts of the domestic public that Belgrade had asked Moscow not to engage on the Kosovo question in the UN Security Council.
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—❗️ 🇭🇷 /🇽🇰 /🇦🇱 ❌ 🇷🇸 URGENT: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has claimed that Serbia is “preparing for an attack by Croatia, Kosovo and Albania,” alleging that the three neighbors are “waiting for a favorable moment when general chaos reigns in the world” to strike and that Croatia has “done everything in the past year to bring down Serbia.”
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—❗️🇲🇩 URGENT: Moldova declares emergency after Russian strike contaminates Nistru River.
➡️ Moldova has declared a state of emergency after a Russian strike on Ukraine’s Novodnistrovsk Hydropower Plant caused major oil pollution in the Nistru River, forcing yellow alert status in the Naslavcea region and leaving residents in the northern city of Bălți temporarily without potable water as authorities warn of possible further cuts to supply in northern towns.
➡️ The Environment Ministry says petroleum substances are still flowing downstream, with Moldovan, Ukrainian, and Romanian teams deploying filters, straw barriers, and mobile labs testing water every six hours, while Chisinau has mobilized the army and requested EU Civil Protection Mechanism support in what officials describe as one of Moldova’s most serious environmental emergencies in decades.
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