Hungary helped Russia to transport arms into Serbia

The leader of the Balkan country, President Aleksandar Vucic, already expressed his gratitude towards President Putin for boosting his military. Romania did not allow the battle tanks and armoured vehicles to transit via the Danube River because of international sanctions in place against Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.

According to the AP News Agency, Western powers fear that the Russian arms support might threaten the fragile peace in the Balkan region with, for example, Kosovo or Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Serbian President expects 30 secondhand T-72 tanks and 30 BRDM-2 reconnaissance vehicles of which

10 armoured patrol vehicles have recently arrived

at a Serbian army military base. 

Romania refused to allow them to be transited via the Danube River because of international sanctions in place against Moscow over its actions in Ukraine. Therefore, according to the AP News Agency, the 10 armoured vehicles flew to Serbia last week on Russian military transport planes

through the Hungarian airspace,

even though relevant NATO sanctions concern Hungary, too.

“The most important thing for us is that we managed to transport the vehicles to Serbia,” Vucic said. “How and which way they came, that is our business.”

Serbia is the only remaining ally to Russia in the Balkans region and was in a bloody conflict with its neighbours in the 1990s after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. In fact, Romania is a member of the NATO while Serbia is officially neutral, though it is traditionally close to Moscow even though