Batajnica

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday a major, 311 mln euro defence industry contract had been signed with a friendly country.

Speaking to reporters at the Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlovic Air Base in Batajnica, Vucic declined to elaborate but noted that the other party was not an African country.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday announced huge investments in the national defence industry and new factories.

BELGRADE - Twenty-two Serbian Armed Forces servicemen departed for Slovenia on Wednesday to join flood relief efforts in the country.

The servicemen, who come from the Serbian Air Force and the 63rd Parachute Brigade, took off from the Colonel Pilot Milenko Pavlovic Air Base in Batajnica near Belgrade aboard H-145 and Mi-17 helicopters.

BELGRADE - The final section of a 9.74 km Belgrade bypass stretching from Strazevica to Bubanj Potok was opened to traffic on Thursday.

The section completes a 47 km full-profile, six-lane motorway route from Batajnica to Bubanj Potok, whose construction began over 30 years ago.

The opening of the section will also be attended by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui.

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, is expected to visit the Serbian checkpoint "Gradina" on the border with Bulgaria today, in order to familiarize himself with the measures against illegal migration, BTA reported.

BELGRADE - After a meeting with Srbijagas Director Dusan Bajatovic, Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic said a natural gas interconnection with Bulgaria was due to be completed before the start of the next heating season.

Minister Lonar stated, after visiting the injured in the bus accident in Bulgaria, that one passenger's leg was amputated, not the driver's, as previously reported.
Lonar, who visited the injured in the hospital in the town of Stara Zagora with a colleague from Bulgaria, said that he talked to children and adults and that the operated child is feeling well.

There were 38 children, 10 adults and the driver in the bus that had an accident.

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, is attending the demonstration of the capabilities of the Serbian Army "Shield 2022" at the airport "Colonel-pilot Milenko Pavlovi" in Batajnica.