State Department: Moscow Seeking to Exploit Ethnic Tensions in Western Balkans

Moscow is seeking to exploit ethnic tensions in the Western Balkans to provoke “instability and hinder the region’s integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions,” the US State Department was quoted as saying on Saturday by RFE.

The warning came after retired US General Wesley Clark had recently cautioned that Russia, “which maintains close ties with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, is using Belgrade as a proxy to sow discord in the region,” it was added, inter alia, in the report.