Serbia threatens retaliation over Croatia truck blockade
Reuters, Batrovci
Serbia threatened to retaliate after neighbor Croatia halted all cargo traffic from Serbia following an influx of migrants over their joint border. More than 30,000 migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, have entered Croatia from Serbia since Tuesday last week, when Hungary barred their entry to the European Union over its southern border with Serbia with a metal fence.
Ukraine leader expresses wish to join NATO
AP, Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told the country’s security council that staying out of the NATO alliance was a “criminal” policy that his government is ready to reverse.
Ukraine has been fighting with separatist rebels in the east since April 2014 in which more than 8,000 have died. Russia backed the rebels, fearing that the pro-Western course of the new Kiev government will make it a NATO ally.
