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Western tanks in Ukraine fire the same kind of depleted uranium rounds that were fired in Kosovo and southern Serbia in 1999, and Kyiv now says Russian drones carry it too. Srđan Aleksić on what the Balkans learned about depleted uranium in Ukraine's future, what one round leaves behind, and what Ukrainians should start doing now, before the illnesses come.
Iranian missiles have struck Israeli cities, most heavily in June 2025. Gaza has been reduced to tens of millions of tonnes of rubble. Srđan Aleksić on the war dust health risks nobody is measuring, why property is compensated and lungs are not, and what civilians on every side can do.
The most important evidence about the danger of uranium dust does not come from Serbia. It comes from the United States: its Air Force tests, its Army memoranda, its own courts and its own veterans. Srđan Aleksić on what America knew about depleted uranium health effects, and how that knowledge belongs in every courtroom.
Japan's nuclear operator has paid more than 11.5 trillion yen to the people of Fukushima, and most of them never had to prove they were ill. Italian courts have ruled for soldiers exposed to depleted uranium more than 300 times. In Serbia, the people who lived under that uranium are still asked for certainty. Srđan Aleksić on what Fukushima compensation teaches the Balkans.
Missiles, drones and the fragments of interceptors have fallen on Doha and Dubai. A gas complex, an airport's fuel tanks, a port and industrial plants have burned. Srđan Aleksić on what that smoke and dust can contain, what the Balkans learned about it too late, and what the people of the Gulf should do now.
Five states that emerged from Yugoslavia punish the denial of genocide. Set side by side, their criminal codes protect different facts, under different headings, with very different penalties.
A Peruvian farmer lost his case against a German energy company, but the court accepted the principle behind it. The International Court of Justice has since defined what states owe. Neither has yet answered the question on which compensation depends.
When the author of a harm cannot be brought to court, one address remains: the duty of the state to protect.
