RUSSIAN MILITARY AID TO BOSNIAN SERBS?

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 97

Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev claims that some unnamed countries supply military aid to Croatia and to Bosnian Moslems. Ostensibly in response, Grachev warns that "it can not be excluded that Russia will also render aid, including to the Bosnian Serbs," He said that the final decision would rest with the Russian security council chaired by Yeltsin. (4) On the other hand, Defense Ministry officials have recently said that NATO could easily take out any SAM missiles which Russia might supply to the Serbs, and that the international blockade of rump Yugoslavia has in any case foreclosed all delivery routes.

Bulgaria As a Possible Circumvention Route.