—🇷🇺/🇷🇸🇧🇦 NEW: Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Serbia’s independent foreign policy and refusal to follow “Euro-Atlantic discipline” continue to unsettle Brussels.

➡️ She linked this, in her assessment, to what she described as the “vicious, inhumane” treatment of Ratko Mladić.

🔗 MFA Russia

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—🇬🇷 Bloomberg: "Millennium Management is preparing to open its first office in Athens"

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—🇷🇸❌🇧🇦 Serbian FM Marko Djuric: "Serbia firmly defends the Dayton Peace Agreement in its entirety."

Full statement:

BiH Defence Minister Zukan Helez has publicly called for abolishing an entity guaranteed by Dayton, adding: “We know what to do afterward.”

Such language from the official responsible for the armed forces is particularly dangerous: it challenges the constitutional order, fuels fear and risks further escalation. His statement must be clarified urgently.

The international community should unequivocally reject every threat to peace, stability and the Dayton order, regardless of its source.

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—🇭🇷/🇪🇺/🇧🇦 NEW: Croatia has been actively briefing EU and NATO partners that Serbia’s state-linked honoring of Ratko Mladić risks destabilizing the Western Balkans.

➡️ Jutarnji list reports that, following instructions from PM Andrej Plenković, FM Gordan Grlić Radman raised the matter at a Riga dinner with six European foreign ministers, linking the Mladić commemoration to regional stability and Serbia’s EU path.

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—🇷🇺❌🇪🇺 NEW: Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Brussels and Western governments of seeking to impose “national collective repentance” on Serbs following reactions to the funeral of General Ratko Mladić.

➡️ She said Serbia was being pressured over the wars surrounding Yugoslavia’s breakup and argued that Western capitals also bear part of the blame.

🔗 DD Geopolitics

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—🇺🇸/🇷🇸 US Representative Joe Wilson:

Vucic tries to present the Serbian people as pro-Russia, pro-CCP, and pro-war criminal but this is a propagandistic LIE. The Serbian people want economic opportunity, prosperity, rule of law, and PEACE in the region. It is the Vucic regime alone that invites in authoritarian forces and fans the flames of hatred.

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—🇦🇱 Balkan Insight: "Albania’s anti-corruption prosecution SPAK announced on Wednesday that former Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Belinda Balluku, already under investigation for allegedly interfering with public procurements for road construction, is now also under investigation for corruption and money laundering."

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—🇬🇷🇬🇷🤝🇫🇷🇫🇷 Euractiv: "Greece is relying on France to push forward a project to lay one of the world’s deepest and longest submarine power cables, designed to link the electricity grids of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus."

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—❗️🪖🇧🇦 NEW: BiH Armed Forces officers warned in an open letter that Defense Minister Zukan Helez has pushed the military to an unprecedented level of national division, risking institutional collapse and complete interethnic disintegration.

🔗 The National Independent

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