in the balkans that started first volodymyr volya, political scientist-internationalist, and kateryna shymkevichf historical sciences works with her and the analytical center for balkan studies kudos to ukraine, dear experts, we welcome you to the press broadcast of the ukrainian tv channel, demand espresso didn't catch on like that thank god in the balkans, but do you think russia would be ready now to try to heat the situation up to that level what really there could be a new hot spot on the european map of ms. kateryna, well, it is profitable for putin, and he is now specifically pushing serbia and kosovo and he has been doing this for more than one year and the last few in the past few months, the media have become more active, that is, the opening of the so-called balkan front is extremely important for putin at the moment, because it immediately draws the interests of the european union and the united states away from ukraine, that is, ukraine is taking a back seat in european american politics, so for putin it is extremely important now it is relevant, just off the course, we are hammerin