.@POLITICOEurope reported yesterday that #Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is seemingly reconsidering #Serbia’s close ties with #Russia, spurred in part by ongoing #Wagner Group recruitment and subversion efforts in Serbia... politico.eu/article/serbia…
2/ ...and demonstrating the international economic and informational costs imposed on #Putin by his invasion of #Ukraine. isw.pub/UkrWar03012023
3/ @POLITICOEurope reported on March 1 that Vučić seeks to appeal to both #Russia and western institutions by continuing #Serbia’s #EuropeanUnion membership bid while refusing to impose sanctions against Russia, but Vučić said that Serbia must make "difficult choices" soon.
4/ Vučić condemned the #Wagner Group and stated that #Serbian authorities will arrest all Serbians who have fought for the Wagner Group in #Ukraine. Vučić characterized attendees of a Wagner-backed protest in Belgrade as anti-Serbian and paid off by unspecified foreign actors.
5/ Vučić greenlit on February 17 a US-led plan to normalize relations with #Kosovo, which #Serbia does not officially recognize, and stated that Serbia will remain on the path to #EU membership.
6/ @POLITICOEurope noted that polls in #Serbia suggest that more Serbians support #Russia than Western states, suggesting Vučić would struggle to completely divest from ties with Russia - which he likely does not intend to do.
7/ A Russian milblogger subsequently amplified the Politico article and criticized Russian President Vladimir #Putin for turning Russia into a "pariah state" from which even "traditional fraternal states distance themselves." isw.pub/UkrWar03012023
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