Bosnia Serb Chief ‘Puppet on a String’ to Putin, Envoy Says
- Republika Srpska leader Dodik threatens to secede from Bosnia
- EU sanctions against Dodik ‘not excluded,’ top envoy says
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The top international envoy to Bosnia-Herzegovina accused the country’s Serb leader of playing into the hands of Vladimir Putin, who he says is exploiting the Balkan nation’s ethnic divisions to divert attention from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who has intensified efforts to to cut ties with the rest of Bosnia, has become a “puppet on a string” to the Russian president, Christian Schmidt, who was appointed as the United Nations-backed High Representative in 2021, said in an interview.