Kosovo, Not Serbia, Is Britain’s Front Line Against Moscow

Ukraine is Russia’s battlefield of conquest; Kosovo its laboratory of infiltration. Europe must stop indulging Belgrade’s double game before the Balkans becomes Moscow’s next Ukraine.

Two years on from the Banjska attack, the lesson for Europe is not simply about a firefight in a northern Kosovo village. It is about geography, choices, and clarity. Ukraine is the frontline of Russia’s brutal expansion eastward; Kosovo is the frontline of its infiltration westward. To ignore that is to repeat the blindness that allowed Crimea to be annexed in 2014 and to invite the same consequences in the Balkans tomorrow.

Serbia has made its choice. President Aleksandar Vucic presides over a government increasingly tied into Moscow’s energy arteries, Beijing’s defence supplies, and Kremlin-linked intelligence networks. Belgrade’s theatre of “balancing” between East and West is just that: theatre. The Rafale jets bought from France, or flirtations with EU membership, are bargaining chips to stall Western pressure while Serbia entrenches itself ever deeper in the Russian orbit. To call this “neutrality” is to indulge a lie.

By contrast, Kosovo stands alone in the Western Balkans as th…