Ben Hodges

The retired lieutenant general, who also served in command posts during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, made the statement in a tweet on Monday, Polish website niezalezna.pl reported.

This was assessed by Paul McCarthy, director for Europe of the International Republican Institute (IRI), and Ben Hodges, former commander-in-chief of the US Ground Forces in Europe, expresses hope that Biden administration will be ready to "lend a hand" to President Aleksandar Vui.
McCarthy believes that Russia wants to show that it is a player that can be counted on.

Romania's President Klaus Iohannis will open next Wednesday an international conference called "Strengthening NATO's Eastern Flank: Challenges and Strategies for Baltic-Black Sea Coherence," to be hosted by the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.

Secretary of State for Euro-Atlantic Strategic and Bilateral Affairs with Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) George Ciamba, on Wednesday met Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges, coordinator for strategic studies at the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

This was the message that came from Moscow a day after the tribunal sentenced the former military commander of Serbs in Bosnia to life in prison, finding him guilty on charges of genocide and war crimes.

Ivica Dacic said on Friday that the issue of the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center (RSHC) in Nis comes down to a clash between big powers.

The first deputy PM and foreign minister added that Serbia "said it a hundred times" it did not want to take part in that.

US Army Europe commander Gen. Ben Hodges says he "does not believe" the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center (RSHC) in Nis is in fact a humanitarian center.

Hodges, who was interviewed during the Belgrade NATO Week gathering on Thursday, told Insajder that the humanitarian title was "a facade."

BELGRADE - The cooperation between the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) and the US Armed Forces occupies a significant place in overall bilateral relations and is constantly improving, SAF Chief of General Staff Gen Ljubisa Dikovic and a delegation of the United States European Command (EUCOM) agreed at a meeting Tuesday.

Former President Ion Iliescu characterized, on Thursday, Russia's action in the eastern Ukraine as being "a bit adventurous", declaring that he was surprised by Moscow's action, but showed that Russians have a "certain historic debt" as the current territory of Ukraine hosted the first Russian state and this, probably, sparks "certain sensibilities".

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev announced during parliamentary control on Friday that NATO is to station a command centre in the capital Sofia.

Nenchev dismissed the speculations that have arisen, following last week's visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, that the Aliance is to station a military base near the Bulgarian seaside town of Shabla.