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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shaun Walker in Bratislava and Lorenzo Tondo

Kosovo: ‘fascist mobs’ guided by Serbia causing violence, says country’s PM

A soldier from the Austrian contingent of the Nato-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo sets up a razor wire fence in front of a municipal building in Zvecan, Kosovo, on Wednesday,
A soldier from the Nato-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo sets up a razor wire fence in front of a municipal building in Zvecan, Kosovo, on Wednesday. Photograph: Georgi Licovski/EPA

Kosovo’s prime minister has blamed violence in the north of the country on “fascist mobs” controlled by the government of neighbouring Serbia, and said he had rejected a US request to relocate recently installed mayors out of their official offices.

More than 30 Nato peacekeeping soldiers were injured in clashes on Monday, prompting the alliance to announce it would send another 700 troops to the country. Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vučić put his country’s army on high combat alert.

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