Summary

• Dodik sentenced for defying international peace envoy’s orders
• He says case is politically motivated, has two weeks to appeal
• Verdict may trigger crisis in Bosnia, threaten ethnic stability
• Russia condemns court verdict as ‘unacceptable’

Some additional details from Index.hr not mentioned in the Reuters article:

• this week Dodik has invited 300 Hungarian special police members for “training” (allegedly only 70 is actually in Republic Srpska right now)

• Serbian president Vučić (whose own position has been under attack by massive protests over the last few months) has called a meeting of the National Security Council of Serbia

• Dodik himself has tweeted:

➡️ The arrest of Călin Georgescu in Romania and my sentence in BiH are part of the same lawfare campaign by globalists desperately claiming on to power by silencing opposition and rigging elections. @JDVance was right—democracy is under attack. Only the truth and the will of the people can stop them!