The European Union peacekeeping mission EUFOR ALTHEA has sent reinforcements to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Local TV channel TOK TV captured footage of military transport entering Banja Luka, the capital of Republika Srpska in northern Bosnia.

According to the mission’s website, this deployment is a “proactive measure” aimed at supporting stability in the country for the benefit of all its citizens.

However, the exact number of additional troops has not been disclosed.

The mission’s website said the move was a “proactive measure” aimed at supporting stability in the country for the benefit of all its citizens.

The EUFOR ALTHEA mission has been in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the end of the Bosnian War in 1995 and currently has around 1,500 troops stationed in the country.

On March 7, Bosnia’s constitutional court suspended a law banning the activities of state-level law enforcement and judicial bodies in the Republika Srpska region.

This came after a call from Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik for Bosnian Serbs to resign from the central police and judiciary. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that such actions could “threaten the security and stability” of the country.

On March 13, the Republika Srpska parliament adopted a draft of a new constitution, which includes provisions to define the entity as a state for the Serbian people.

The proposal also grants the right to self-determination, the option to join complex state structures (such as a federation or confederation), the creation of its own army, and the abolition of the Council of Peoples and vice president positions for the other two constitutional peoples—Bosniaks and Croats.

These proposed changes conflict with the Dayton Peace Agreement and the country’s Constitution, which recognize Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs as state-forming peoples across Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, is a peace agreement reached on November 21, 1995 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton (Ohio, USA) and signed on December 14, 1995 in Paris. The signing of the agreement, initiated by Great Britain and the United States, put an end to the Bosnian War, which lasted three and a half years.

The Dayton Agreement established a single sovereign state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, divided into two parts: Republika Srpska, a Serb-majority entity, and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, predominantly inhabited by Bosniaks and Croats.

The adoption of this new constitution can be seen as the continuation of separatist actions by Republika Srpska’s leadership, which began last month.

Reports from 2021 also mentioned the potential deployment of Ukrainian peacekeepers to Bosnia.