This is CBS, I on the World.

I'm John Batchel.

Ukraine conflict ceased fire, dominating the story.

However, the Western Balkans.

I welcome Ivana Stradner, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,

who's my guide on the Western Balkans,

because the Kremlin has ambitions,

and they do not stop with Keefe. They spread throughout the Eastern European frontier with

what used to be the Soviet Empire. Avana, a very good evening to you. You're traveling,

and I take you to the Western Balkans because there's news.

The Kremlin is looking to make advances on the Bosnia-Herzegovina frontier.

And the way they're doing that or plan to do it is with a man named Milorat Dotic,

who's now been sentenced to a year in jail for bad acting.

Who is Milorad Dotic?

What do we need to know about him that the Kremlin is keen on him?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

And indeed, while Russia is negotiating with the United States, Putin is trying actually to distract the

West from Ukraine. And he has several options, and one of them is the Western Balkans. He does

not need to roll in tanks and jets there, as I said, multiple times on our show. All he really

needs to do is to use internal grievances and ethnic tensions

to steer a pot. And Russia is already defending the flames, but of course, this would have not been

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