Members of the Kosovar army patrol roads on the border with Serbia
The chief of the Serbian Army General Staff, Milan Mojsilovic, has today proposed deploying troops on the border with Kosovo, where tension is maintained due to the roadblocks of the Kosovar Serb minority, and shots have been heard again.
General Mojsilovic traveled to Raska tonight, near the border with Kosovo, after holding an emergency meeting with the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic. “The tasks that the Serbian Army, and I as chief of the General Staff, have been given are precise and clear, and they will be fulfilled,” Mojsilovic told Pink television, without elaborating. He also indicated that the situation is complex and requires the presence of the Serbian Army along the border line.
Shots were heard tonight near a NATO KFOR mission patrol in the town of Zubin Potok, in northern Kosovo, where local Serbs have blocked the roads for 16 days.
According to the Kosovar daily Koha, KFOR reported tonight that there were no injuries or material damage in the shooting, and that “the facts are being investigated.” The Kosovo Police said, according to the source, that none of its units have been attacked “nor has there been an exchange of fire between the Kosovo Police and any group,” police spokesman Baki Kelani said.
The Serbian media reported, for their part, that tonight there was a shootout in the surroundings of Zubin Potok between the Kosovo special police and the Serbs who are on the barricades, when the Kosovar police tried to remove the blockade. Serbian public television RTS assured that the automatic weapons firefight lasted several minutes, before calm returned.