Foreign Ministry spokesman Nebojsa Vujovic said Thursday. By most standards, Kosovo has been a debacle for Milosevic, one some think may eventually force him from office. His army and police are now in retreat. A U.N. tribunal has indicted him for war crimes. He has essentially lost Kosovo, something he swore he'd never do.
Thousands are dead.
Hundreds of thousands are refugees. The economy is in tatters. We have defended our state, our people, peace and the international order,'' the newspaper explained. Milosevic himself, absent from the public eye for most of the war, took to the airwaves Thursday to claim victory. He said he'd wrested the Kosovo problem from NATO's clutches and put it in the hands of the United Nations.