After inspecting the area where the three Kosovo police officers were arrested, and after talking with representatives of the institutions of Serbia and Kosovo, the KFOR Mission still does not have precise information about the place of arrest.
Speaking tonight on RTS, the President of Serbia said that three Kosovo police officers were arrested 1,8 kilometers from the administrative line, and that our army was 20 kilometers away from the place of arrest. He emphasized that Kfor also knows all this
The meeting of the governments of Albania and Kosovo has been cancelled. The Albanian Prime Minister explained that the meeting is not possible because Kosovo is moving towards sanctions
Serbs are still protesting in front of municipal buildings in three northern municipalities. In Zvečan, a rally was organized in support of two Serbs who were arrested on May 29 after a violent clash between citizens, Kosovo police and KFOR members.
The commander of KFOR, General Angelo Michele Ristuća, spoke to the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera" and said on that occasion that "the prime minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, is to blame for the crisis in Kosovo because he first appointed Albanians as mayors of municipalities that are not recognized by the Serbian majority , despite the advice of the entire international community" and that he then used force without consulting anyone. At the same time, the German media Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung believes that Kurti "unnecessarily facilitates the Belgrade autocrat Aleksandar Vučić the Kosovo game"
Kosovo is expected to immediately suspend police operations and call early elections as soon as possible. "We expect the participation of Kosovo Serbs in these elections," European Union officials say
Professors employed at the secondary school in Zvečan, which is located in the same building as the municipality of Zvečan, and which is under the control of KFOR, requested today to take over the students' documentation, which they were given the opportunity to do.
The US ambassador to Serbia said that these are very difficult days in Kosovo and reminded that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the US opposes Prishtina's moves and that there may be consequences for that, while Aljbin Kurti said that the US decision was "unfair and disaster"
The day after the unrest, the situation in all municipalities in the North of Kosovo is significantly calmer. The Serb protests in Zvečan and Zubin Potok have ended, and new ones have been announced for tomorrow morning
Citizens of Kosovo had a peaceful night after yesterday's clashes with members of KFOR and ROSU. KFOR forces are also this morning in front of the municipality building in Zvečan. In the meantime, the Kosovo Prime Minister met with the ambassadors of the Quintet countries and a representative of the EU Office and responded to the accusation of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, saying that it was not about peaceful protests, but about "a bunch of extremists under the direction of official Belgrade".
The Prime Minister of Italy condemned the "unacceptable and irresponsible" attack on the NATO mission in Kosovo and called on the authorities in Pristina to refrain from unilateral actions. Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani accused "Serbian gangs" under the control of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić for the riots, and Vučić named Kosovo Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti as the culprit and called on the West to "restrain" him.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, spoke about the conflict in the north of Kosovo. As he stated, Aljbin Kurti is to blame for everything, as he warned. He also said that he would not allow the pogrom of the Serbian people and called on the Serbs in Kosovo to remain calm
After several hundred Serbs refused to comply with KFOR's ultimatum to move away from Kosovo police vehicles that were surrounded by Serb people, KFOR attacked the demonstrators with batons, stun grenades and tear gas.
The result of the policy of boycotting Kosovo institutions is that there are no Serbs in the government in Pristina, the courts, the police and the municipalities in the north of Kosovo. Places in local self-government institutions in four majority-Serb municipalities were occupied by Albanians. Kosovo police want to enable Albanian mayors to start working in municipal buildings. Serbs are protesting in the streets. KFOR took a position between the conflicting parties. The situation is tense
During the visit of President Vučić to Hilandar, where he spent Christmas, it was agreed that the Government of Serbia will provide all the necessary money to complete the renovation of the monastery. During the President's absence, his Cabinet received a response from KFOR to the request for the return of up to 1000 members of the Serbian Army and the Police of the Republic of Serbia to Kosovo.
The President of Serbia explained that the current situation in the north of Kosovo is actually an attempt to end the Serbian problem in Kosovo and Metohija in which the Pristina authorities led by Albin Kurti and a good part of the international community are pretending not to see what is happening. He told the people in the north of Kosovo to be calm, to refrain from provocations and, for now, to trust KFOR and EULEX
Tonight is the meeting of the National Security Council. Kfor was informed about Kurti's threat that he would attack the Serbs in the evening. The Kosovo police claim that they are not in Gazivode, but that criminal groups were shooting from there last night
In the context of the announcement that Serbia has the right and intention to return part of its troops to Kosovo, as Ana Brnabić and Petar Petković say, Vladislav Jovanović and Boris Tadić remind that, according to Resolution 1244, KFOR should make a statement about this
The former NATO spokesman believes that a rapid action unit should be established in Brussels in the event of a crisis in Kosovo, and the KFOR commander says that they have increased their presence in the north and will no longer allow barricades to be set up.
The information office of the KFOR headquarters announced that the number of soldiers near the Jarinje and Brnjak crossings has increased. International military peacekeeping forces are ready to intervene in the event of a confrontation between local Serbs and the Kosovo police. KFOR appealed to "all parties" to refrain from unilateral actions and violence
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, during his tour of the USA, requested that the temporary American military base under the auspices of KFOR in Kosovo be turned into a permanent base of NATO forces, which, presumably, should represent a defense against "military offensive operational bases" in Serbia.
