![]() “Considering that this represents the strengthening of NATO in the region, it is not surprising that Russia is counteracting. “That is part of the overall arming in eastern and central Europe,” he wrote, adding that Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria are accelerating the modernisation of their arsenals stemming from Soviet times.īut he also wrote that Croatia aims to buy F-16 fighter jets to replace its old MiG 21’s. The article says that the parliament in Pristina decided in December to form an army, partly because “Serbia is arming itself.” “Having this in mind, announcements of Serbia’s Government that it will attack Kosovo if necessary, if that country forms its own army, sound especially threatening,” he wrote. He wrote that Serbia had “under the dictator Slobodan Milosevic waged wars against Croatia and Kosovo, and in the Bosnian war helped the Serbs there.” “That is potentially explosive – as Serbia relies on Russia, a country which showed in Ukraine its decisiveness to expand its sphere of influence with armed force,” said the article by Boris Kalnoki, Die Welt’s correspondent in Budapest. “The news brings the aspirations of Serbia to modernise its army and with that to bring its own arms industry back into focus,” said the article, carried by Deutsche Welle. Russia has donated six MiG-29 fighters to the Serbian military and the donation of 30 BRDM-2MS armored scout vehicles and 30 T-72MS main battle tanks with logistics support is underway, a press release by Serbia’s Defence Ministry on Wednesday said.
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