Stradner: Things in the Balkans warming up again, Russia, Serbia lag behind

Adviser at the Foundation for the Protection of Democracy, analyst and recognition of developments in the Balkans, Ivana Stradner, has said that in the Balkans “things are heating up”.

In a writing on the X platform, it hinted that Russia and Serbia are blowing the situation.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey “Lavrov has just said that ethnic cleansing of Serbs is taking place in Kosovo and compared it to Donbas. The Russian defence ministry's media postponed a nature for ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia and for the responsibility of the West”, Stradner wrote.

Furthermore, she said a few days ago, Serbia's “deputy prime minister met with the Russian government to discuss ethnic cleansing in Kosovo”.

The Russian and Serbian sub-Medias have distributed information that the Serbian president will discuss the understanding of Serbian territory and potential plans for return of territory”, the Balkan expert Ivana Stradner has suggested.