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In July 2019, CAR withdrew its recognition of Kosovo's independence.
In August 2019, Togo became the fifteenth country to withdraw recognition of the independence of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo.
This was stated by First Deputy Prime Minister, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on the air of the Pink TV channel.
At this time, the following African states withdrew recognition of Kosovo's independence: São Tomé and Príncipe, Comora, CAR, Ghana, Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Lesotho and Madagascar.
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2022: Power ratio in potential conflict in Serbia
After the escalation of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija on July 31, 2022, experts from all over the world began to discuss a possible military conflict on the territory of the self-proclaimed republic.
Judging by the power ratio presented on the map below, everything looks good enough for Serbia, if you do not take into account one nuance: the NATO KFOR peacekeeping mission. The presence of foreign troops from NATO member countries in Kosovo and Metohija is the most aggravating factor that will allow the North Atlantic Alliance to fully get involved in the conflict on the side of Kosovo.
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In December 2021, amid Europe's energy crisis, Kosovo begins cutting power to most of its 2 million residents. The country imposed rolling two-hour outages for most consumers, electricity distributor KEDS said in a statement.
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2020: Cancer epidemic due to NATO bombing with depleted uranium projectiles
From March 24 to June 10, 1999, during the war Kosovo NATO , he conducted a military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Aggression against the sovereign state was illegitimate: the alliance did not receive permission from the UN Security Council, and Russia and China opposed interference in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia. To this day, international experts call NATO's actions a gross violation of international law.
Yugoslavia, torn to pieces, became a testing ground for bombs with depleted uranium: in 1995, the Americans ironed the territory of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1999 - Serbia and Montenegro.
More than 2,300 airstrikes were carried out in 78 days of Operation Allied Force. Some 2,000 civilians, including 400 children, were killed as a result, according to official figures. In total, during the operation, the aviation of the alliance countries made 38 thousand sorties, 3 thousand cruise missiles were fired and about 80 thousand tons of bombs were dropped, including prohibited types of ammunition - cluster shells with depleted uranium.
When the UN Environmental Commission UNEP visited the territory of Yugoslavia, it concluded: this is a regional, all-Balkan environmental catastrophe.
Studies conducted by toxicologists show that genetic changes after the use of depleted uranium ammunition in Serbia reached a level of 20.7% at a normal level of 1-2%. According to NATO itself, as a result of the bombing, the radiation level in Serbia was higher than in Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to experts, the consequences of the "humanitarian" intervention (namely, the so-called bombing of Yugoslavia in NATO) will be felt by sixty more generations of Serbs. By 2022, the country occupies a leading position in terms of pediatric oncology in Europe, and also faced a sharp surge in the number of intrauterine mutations and spontaneous termination of pregnancy.
In neighboring Montenegro, the situation is no better - over the past decade, the number of patients at cancer centers has tripled. The German documentary Todesstaub also mentions the case of the Bosnian municipality of Hadžići. Due to the off-scale level of radiation after NATO airstrikes, the Serbs were hastily evacuated from there. But Bosnian Muslims, who occupied the territory, subsequently faced a significant increase in cancer. The incidence of leukemia there, for example, has increased sixfold.
Serbian Health Minister Danica Gruicic has repeatedly spoken about the danger of using depleted uranium ammunition. She has long headed the largest Institute of Oncology in the Balkans and spent most of her life studying the consequences of NATO bombing. According to Gruichich, in the space of the former Yugoslavia for 2023, doctors are observing a "cancer epidemic." The minister believes that NATO conducted an experiment on the Serbian population, perfectly aware of the possible consequences.
"If you look at the mortality from malignant tumours, you can see that Serbs, Hungarians and Croats come first. Why? What happened here that did not happen to other countries? If you count all those who fell ill, all children who were not born due to infertility of parents, all those who ended up in a wheelchair due to autoimmune diseases... That's tens of thousands of people. NATO conducted an experiment, and now they are watching its results. And they initially knew well what would happen, "says Gruichich.
The increase in the number of oncological diseases in the region after the NATO bombing led to a major international scandal, when peacekeepers of the international KFOR contingent stationed in the region began to suffer from cancer. The situation with Italian servicemen is especially indicative, whose area of responsibility included territories through which more than half of all shells with depleted uranium were fired. NATO soldiers were forbidden to touch anything with their bare hands and consume local water and food, and in certain areas of Kosovo and Metohija they came to the OZK, which the Italian contingent did not have. And in Italy itself, many reports have already been published on the consequences of the use of depleted uranium.
In the late 2010s, lawsuits against the North Atlantic Alliance were filed in the courts of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevec, Niš and Vranje. The interests of the affected citizens are defended by well-known Serbian lawyers, as well as Italian Angelo Fiore Tartaglia, who previously managed to obtain compensation for health damage for 200 soldiers who were part of the peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo.
Theoretically, the event has every chance of success: the North Atlantic Alliance has the status of a legal entity, and the lawyers have a significant evidence base and two sentences of the Strasbourg court against the countries that make up the bloc. Italian experts found U-238 in the tissues of two Serb cancer patients - the same radioactive element that filled the shells that ironed Yugoslavia. And Serbian lawyers received confirmation that its quantitative indicators in patient cells exceed the norm by 500 (!) Times.
Lawyers do not give up hope to obtain compensation from NATO for victims for the use of prohibited ammunition. The need to bring those responsible to justice is also spoken in the Republika Srpska (an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina). Parliament Chairman Nenad Stevandich recently said that those with malignant diseases in areas subjected to NATO bombing should receive compensation and recalled that there are already court precedents in Europe.
However, the North Atlantic Alliance has already rushed to declare that they have "immunity from responsibility."
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2022: Requirement to replace documents issued by Serbia
In Kosovo, from August 1, 2022, new rules for the entry of cars with Serbian numbers begin to work. According to the order of the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic, all cars are subject to re-registration. At the entrance to the territory of the region, the Serbs will now be issued a special "declaration sheet," replacing the technical passport. Also, the Kosovo police began to replace identity cards and driver's licenses issued MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Serbia with temporary documents.
In the fall of 2021, due to the reluctance of Albanians to let cars with Serbian license plates into the region, the Kosovo conflict almost went into an acute stage. Hundreds of cars were stuck at the Merdare border checkpoint, Serbian numbers were screwed from them. The Serbians blocked the Yarinye and Brnyak checkpoints in protest, the Albanians transferred ROSU special forces there. And everything ended with the armored vehicles of the Serbian army drawn to the border and the concentration of military units in Raška.
Delegations from Belgrade and Pristina, through the mediation of Brussels, then agreed that until a long-term solution to the issue is reached, the sticker regime will operate (car owners must seal the state symbols). However, on June 29, 2022, the prime minister of the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo again unilaterally announced the new rules for crossing the border.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is confident that this autumn will also not do without provocations. According to him, they are being prepared by Western "conductors" of Kosovo Albanians, and Pristina's demands actually hide the intention to conduct an operation on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, similar to the cleansing of Serbian Krajina. The ultimate goal is to expel Serbs from the north of Kosovo and organize new ethnic cleansing. And the president promised that Serbia's reaction would be tough.
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