title: Western Balkans and Ukrainian Crisis 2014–2024
abstract: The paper explores the changes that have occurred in the foreign, security, and defense policies and capabilities of Croatia and Serbia, as the two most important states for the Western Balkans stability in the context of the ten-year ukrainian crisis and changing international relations and order toward the more conflictual one.These changes were significantly expressed at the beginning of the ukrainian crisis in 2014, with Crimea joining the russian Federation, strengthened in 2022 with the ru