Articles By Slavisha Batko Milacic
A new phase of hybrid war
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2022
On Tuesday, September 27, Gazprom announced unprecedented damage to the company’s two gas pipelines that run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to Germany – Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2. Almost...
A Great Success of Russian Engineers
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2022
From August 26 to 30, a group of international journalists had the opportunity to visit Crimea and see how the European Union sanctions affect Crimea. The author of this article was among that...
Ukrainian army endangers civilians
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2022
Ukrainian forces have threatened civilians by setting up bases and operating weapons systems in populated areas, including schools and hospitals, as they battled the Russian intervention that...
Western assistance or logistical nightmare for Ukraine?
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jul , 2022
In early July, right after Lisichansk was captured by the Russian forces, the Russian military and its allies from DNR and LNR, put on display a large number of captured Ukrainian military...
How can Europe defend against an uncontrolled new arms market?
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2022
Editor’s Note: There is a tinge of comical in this readable article relating to the generous weapons supply by the West to Ukraine. Hardly a day passes by without Europeans and Americans...
Double standards for Erdogan
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2022
While the whole world was distracted by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and wondered whether China would follow Moscow’s example and try to “reintegrate” Taiwan, Ankara, a member of the North...
The truth about Bucha
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2022
Shortly after the Russian troops left the outskirts of Kiev, the pro-Ukrainian media fired a broadside of stories about alleged Russian war crimes against peaceful civilians, traces of which were...
NATO aggression against Serbia in 1999 and the Russian peacekeeping...
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Mar , 2022
Recently, more and more European and American analysts, journalists, populist politicians are comparing the Allied Force operation carried out by NATO troops against Serbia and Montenegro in 1999...
What Forced a Russian response in Ukraine
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Date: 08 Mar , 2022
While the Russian special operation is going on in Ukraine, many are wondering what is the reason for launching it. One of the reasons, which is labeled by the West as Putin’s rhetoric, is the...
Fake News and Ukrainian Crisis
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2022
“The same pilot who shot down six Russian warplanes, he was nicknamed the ‘Ghost of Kiev”. “A column of scorched Russian equipment near Konotop”. “Snake Island recaptured”. Such...
The Russian bear is out of its den
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2022
Despite possible sanctions and their hard-hitting economic consequences, the hunted Russian bear has got out of the den and is going after the hunters. Until recently, Russians, Ukrainians, and...
Invisible War
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2022
The whole world has been watching with great alarm the events unfolding around a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine for several months now. The Kremlin’s position is crystal-clear: expanding...
Western support for Russian opposition
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2022
The growing pressure on Russia from Europe every day does not lead to support for street protests and a wave of discontent among Russians, as well as to mass opposition demonstrations, no matter...
Croatian message to Serbia
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Dec , 2021
Recently, the Croatian military decided to choose the French Dassault Rafale for its multi-role fighter jet. The twelve Rafale planes will replace Croatia’s Russian-made MiGs in the country’s...
The Question of Bosnia
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2021
Tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not calming down. And if tensions in that state are a frequent occurrence, they have never been at the level as they are now. The reason for this is the...
Afghan Fiasco – The end of a Unipolar World?
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Date: 02 Oct , 2021
Anyone who ever tried to invade Afghanistan wasinevitably defeated. The multiethnic mountainous country has become a grave for the British, the Russians, and now for the Americans and their...
Panjshir Needs Help
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Date: 18 Sep , 2021
The Taliban’s rapid advance in Afghanistan has briefly stalled only in the face of strong resistance mounted by the people of the country’s recalcitrant mountainous province of Panjshir....
A Costly Afghan Mistake
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2021
The Taliban’s quick seizure of Afghanistan is an exact replay of what happened there 25 years ago. The, radical Islamists have managed to gain control over the entire territory of the country,...
Rebranding of terrorists in Syria
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2021
Just a few months since Joe Biden’s election, US idea of terrorism has radically changed. With the media having spared no effort making people believe that the real terrorists are indeed the...
Turkey's Path to Autonomy
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Date: 15 Jul , 2021
The events in the Middle East have made a large number of interstate relations of the former “allies” very complicated due to the large-scale operation “Arab Spring”. After the failure of the...