Batajnica

No army in the world exists because of peace, but because of war, says Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

Speaking on Wednesday at the Batajnica airport during the marking of Air Force Day, Vulin observed that while tractors are more useful than tanks - if there are no tanks, then one day there will be no tractors, either.

No army in the world exists because of peace, but because of war, says Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

Speaking on Wednesday at the Batajnica airport during the marking of Air Force Day, Vulin observed that while tractors are more useful than tanks - if there are no tanks, then one day there will be no tractors, either.

BELGRADE - Presidential candidate Vojislav Seselj said Sunday he was hoping to make it to the second round of the Serbian presidential elections, in which he expects a "fierce showdown" with Aleksandar Vucic.

Russian President Vladimir Putin should sign a degree on the delivery of six MiG-29s to Serbia during his meeting in Moscow with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic.

One person has died while another has been critically injured during two pileups caused by ice early on Wednesday.

The accidents happened on the bypass in Batajnica, in the northern part of Belgrade.

Photo: TASS/Vladimir Smirnov

BELGRADE - More than 150 Russian and about 50 Belarusian paratroopers have arrived in Serbia to take part in the Slavic Brotherhood-2016 international military drills, the Russian Defense Ministry press service reported on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - A group of migrants protested this morning in the center of Belgrade, in a part near the main bus station. Migrants went to the streets and stopped all traffic after which they started walking towards New Belgrade and Zemun accompanied by the police, writes Serbian daily "Kurir".

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that the goal of the Serbian Army is "to deter anyone from a potential attack on Serbia."

He made the comment while touring the military airport in Batajnica, a Belgrade neighborhood, and attending the opening of a new hangar and promotion of new weapons manufactured in Serbia.

On the 17th anniversary of the killings of 48 Kosovo Albanians in Suhareka/Suva Reka, campaigners walked from downtown Belgrade to the suburb of Batajnica, where the bodies were found in 2001.

The Serbian Defence Minister, Bratislav Gasic, and the First Deputy Head of the Russian Service for Military Technical Cooperation, Andrei Markov, signed an agreement on Tuesday to establish a regional centre in Belgrade for the repair and maintenance of Russian-made helicopters.