Serbia puts its troops on alert amid tensions in Kosovo

The government of Serbian He said he had placed his troops on heightened alert Monday night over recent tensions in neighboring Kosovo, which has seen shooting, explosions and roadblocks.

The president of SerbianAleksandar Vucic, “ordered the Serbian army to be at the highest level of combat readiness, that is, at the level of using armed force,” Defense Minister Milos Vucevic said in a statement.

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The day before, Vucic had sent the head of the army, General Milan Mojsilovic, to the border with Kosovo, where the community serbia has erected barricades in a new increase in tensions in this young Balkan country.

“The situation there is complicated and complex”, hthe military chief had told Pink television on Sunday night on the way to Raska, 10 km from the border with Kosovo.

Subsequently, the Ministry of the Interior had declared that “all units” dependent on its department would pass “immediately under the command of the Chief of the General Staff.”

Serbian it does not recognize the independence of its former southern province – populated mostly by ethnic Albanians – proclaimed in 2008.

Belgrade encourages Kosovo’s 120,000 Serbs to defy local authorities, as Pristina seeks to entrench its sovereignty over the entire territory.

Hundreds of Serbs have maintained blockades in northern Kosovo since December 10 to protest the arrest of a former Serb policeman, which paralyzed movement to two border posts with Serbian.

On Monday, Serbian media released a video shared on social networks in which gunshots are heard, claiming that it is “combats” that occurred when Kosovar forces tried to dismantle a barricade.

Kosovar Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla said the attack took place against a NATO Kosovo International Security Force (KFOR) patrol.

KFOR announced an investigation into shooting “on December 25, near a patrol of the NATO mission in Kosovo”, although it did not cause “injuries or material damage”.

Source: Elcomercio

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