The Balkan Line (Russian: Балканский рубеж, romanized: Balkanskiy rubezh; Serbian: Балканска међа / Balkanska međa) is a 2019 Russian–Serbian action film directed by Andrey Volgin,[2][3][4] depicting a secret operation to capture Slatina Airport in Kosovo after the bombing of Yugoslavia, led by Yunus-bek Yevkurov. These events became the most dangerous aggravation of relations between the Russians and the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The film was released in Russia on 21 March 2019 (three days prior to the 20th anniversary of the events depicted in the film); it was released by 20th Century Fox CIS) after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.
In 1999, during the bombing of Yugoslavia, Slatina airfield is taken over by terrorists led by an Albanian warlord, Smuk. Afterwards, an operation to capture the airfield from them is conducted by Russian intelligence agents. The terrorists engage in organ harvesting, robberies, assassinations, and ethnic cleansing.
Russian Airborne Troop and military intelligence officer Aslan-Bek Evkhoev and former paratrooper-turned-mercenary Andrey Shatalov head a small detachment tasked with the dangerous mission to stop the terrorists, recapture the airfield held from them, and hold it until a Russian Airborne Troops reinforcement stationed in Bosnia arrived ahead of NATO forces, which the team will leave beforehand, as well as rescue Shatalov's love interest Jasna Blagojević, who was captured to be harvested for organs, along with several ethnic Serb prisoners.[5]
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