Ministry of Defense

BELGRADE - Protectors of Citizens Sasa Jankovic will get answers to all the questions he asked the Ministry of Defense within the legal deadline, Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic said Thursday.

DM: Ombudsman "will get answers to all questions"

BELGRADE -- Sasa Jankovic will get answers to all the questions he asked the Ministry of Defense within the legal deadline, Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic said Thursday.

MoD rejects accusations against army chief

BELGRADE -- The claims of the FHP NGO against Ljubisa Dikovic represent "a continuation of an orchestrated campaign against the defense system of the Republic of Serbia."

The Ministry of Defense reacted on Thursday in this way to the accusations that the army chief was involved in war crimes in the late 1990s.

Serbian peacekeepers in Lebanon "safe"

BELGRADE -- All Serbian Army members who serve in UN's UNFIL peacekeeping mission in Lebanon are well and safe, the Ministry of Defense has said.

Spokesman Maj. Jovan Krivokapic said that the ministry was "monitoring the situation in the field and maintaining constant contact with our people deployed in the operation zone."

Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in 24 hours

DONETSK -- Seven Ukrainian soldiers died in the fighting in eastern Ukraine during the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has announced.

24 others have been injured, the AFP agency said.

Casing made in Bosnia found at Paris massacre site

SARAJEVO -- A "controversial" shell casing found at the scene of the Charlie Hebdo office shooting in Paris last week did come from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

This has been reported by N1, who quoted Deputy Bosnian Defense Minister Zivko Marjanac.

BELGRADE - Members of Serbia's Military Security Agency (VBA) have arrested six persons suspected to have committed the criminal offenses of bribery and trading in influence in resolving status issues at the Serbian Defense Ministry and Serbian Armed Forces (VS).

Colonel among group arrested on corruption charges

BELGRADE -- The Military-Security Agency has filed criminal complaints against six persons suspected of receiving and giving bribes.

Among them is an army officer with the rank of colonel, it has been announced.

MoD members arrested in corruption case

BELGRADE -- Two members of the Ministry of Defense, and two more persons from Belgrade have been arrested on suspicion that they received and gave bribes.

Special unit member killed in barracks accident

BELGRADE -- A member of the special military police unit Kobre ("Cobras") has died at the military clinic VMA after he was shot "during a routine weapons check."

The Ministry of Defense also announced on Tuesday that the victims was Milan Dosković, a 33-year-old who joined the military in 2001.