AP: Serbia gets Russian MIGAs Increase Tensions in Balkans

The US AP agency reported today on the seizure of two MIG-29 aircraft from the Serbian Air Force, with the assessment that the purchase of weapons -- part of which are Russian planes -- could fuel tensions in the Balkans and increase Moscow's influence in the region.

Russia has supplied Serbia with six free MIG and two of them that flew today have passed the remont process, while all Russian planes that will cost Serbia about 185m euros will be repaired.

Otherwise, Belgrade's Batajnica Airport has become the solemn admission of two Russian MIG 29 planes, which Serbia has received from Russia in the presence of Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuci.

A promotional flight of planes, which have been modernised in recent months, has also taken place at the ceremony, and as a whole in Serbia, B92 reports.

Vuciq said he had not cried when he saw the planes enter operational use, N1 reported. /Periscopi/