By Denitsa Koseva in Sofia Milorad Dodik, the separatist president of Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska, has threatened that the entity might declare the EUFOR Althea mission an army of occupation.

Bosnian prosecutors have ordered the detention of three top Bosnian Serb officials over a series of separatist actions in recent weeks that have heightened tensions in the Balkan country

Bosnian state prosecutors on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik and his aides for ignoring a court summons, a move which Dodik pledged to resist with help from Russia in a widening standoff over the fragile country.