Serbia protests after Croatian minister calls president a Russian ‘satellite’

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Serbia has sent a note of protest after Croatia’s foreign minister described President Aleksandar Vucic as a Russian “satellite” in the Balkans.

It was the latest spat between the two neighbours, which have been at odds for most of the time since the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.