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Vucic ‘wants war’: Kosovo PM accuses Belgrade of inciting violence

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti welcomed a NATO decision to bolster its troops, saying last weekend's shootout illustrates Serbia's attempts to destabilise its former province [Visar Kryeziu/AP]

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti says Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic planned and ordered an attack in northern Kosovo “to destabilise” the country with the goal of starting a war.

About 30 heavily armed Serbs stormed the village of Banjska last Sunday, fought Kosovo police in a gun battle, and barricaded themselves into a Serbian Orthodox monastery. A Kosovo policeman and three Serb attackers were killed.

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