EU Increases Peacekeeping Forces in Bosnia Amid Rising Separatist Tensions

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's separatist actions and conviction escalate political crisis, drawing international condemnation and Russian support.

• The European Union announced the deployment of 400 additional troops to its EUFOR peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, raising the total force to 1,500 to address escalating tensions.
• Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik enacted laws rejecting federal police and judiciary authority in the Republika Srpska region, defying the country's constitutional order.
• Bosnia's Constitutional Court temporarily suspended Dodik's separatist laws, which were passed after his conviction and sentencing for undermining the Dayton Peace Agreement.
• Dodik has called on ethnic Serbs to resign from federal institutions and join Republika Srpska's government, further straining the fragile post-war governance structure.
• The U.S. and EU condemned Dodik's actions as destabilizing, while Russia expressed solidarity with Dodik, intensifying international divisions over the crisis.

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