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Kosovo-Serbia tensions: Mood on the ground, possible scenarios

Analysts say heightened friction in the Balkans may serve the Kremlin’s interests but cast doubt over a show of force.

Al Jazeera

Serbs start removing barricades in easing of tensions in Kosovo

Mitrovica (Kosovo) (AFP) - The roadblock near the main border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia was removed Thursday, state-run TV said, announcing a move that paves the way to easing of tensions in the volatile region.

AFP

Kosovo reopens Serbia border crossing, roadblocks yet to go

Kosovo has reopened the main border crossing with Serbia after a nearby barricade that led to its closure was removed

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Kosovo Serbs to Remove Barricades that Triggered Tensions

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said late Wednesday that Serbs will start removing their barricades in Kosovo on Thursday in a move that could deescalate tensions that triggered fears of new clashes in the Balkans. The agreement was reached at a late-night crisis meeting with the leaders of Kosovo Serbs, Vucic…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Protesting Serbs in northern Kosovo start removing barricades

The removal of the roadblock paves the way for easing soaring tensions in the volatile region.

Al Jazeera

Serbs in northern Kosovo to remove barricades, Serbia's Vucic says

Serbs in northern Kosovo who have been blocking roads for the past 19 days in a protest against the arrest of a former policeman will start removing barricades Thursday morning, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening.

Reuters

Serbia's Vucic urges Serbs in Kosovo to remove barricades - official

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has urged ethnic Serbs in Kosovo to end protests against the Pristina government, reassuring them that they would be immune from prosecution, a Serbian official said on Wednesday.

Reuters

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Serbs Put Up New Roadblocks as Tensions Soar in Kosovo

Serbs on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier, a day after Serbia put its troops near the border on a high level of combat readiness. The new barriers, made of heavily loaded trucks, were put up overnight in Mitrovica, a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Serbia puts forces on combat alert as tensions soar over roadblocks in Kosovo

Russia-backed Vucic accuses Pristina of ‘triggering unrest to kill Serbs’

The Independent UK

Serbia puts troops on high alert as tensions soar in Kosovo

Serbs have erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier

The Independent UK

Serbia troops on 'highest level' of alert over latest Kosovo tensions

Serbian armed forces were on "the highest level" of alert, Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said Monday, highlighting the Balkan country's increasingly strained relations with neighbouring Kosovo over recent shootings and blockades.

Bangkok Post

Serbian army put on highest alert over Kosovo tensions

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered the nation’s army on full alert after weeks of rising tensions in neighboring Kosovo where the local Serb minority has been confronting the authorities over new registration requirements, putting up road blockades and holding protests that threaten to tip into violence, the defense ministry…

Tribune News Service

Serbia places its troops on Kosovo border on combat alert as tensions escalate

Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness," ignoring NATO's calls for calming down of tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes.

France 24

Serbia bids to send soldiers back into Kosovo

Belgrade (AFP) - Serbia on Friday asked NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo to allow the return of Serbian military and police to its former breakaway province, a minister said.

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Serbia to request permission to deploy its troops in Kosovo

The Serbian government will ask the NATO peacekeeper commander to allow the country to send up to 1,000 police and army personnel to Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

Al Jazeera

Tensions in north Kosovo – whose agenda does the flare-up serve?

Ethnic fractures in the Western Balkans, including in Kosovo’s Serb-populated area, create trouble for the EU and US.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Germany's Scholz Says EU Firmly on Ukraine's Side

The European Union is united in its support for Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the German parliament, adding, with apparent reference to Hungary, that attempts to undermine the bloc's values by blocking foreign policy measures would fail. "Anyone who thinks he can undermine the values of the EU, to which…

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why do Kosovo-Serbia tensions persist?

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew during the past week after Serbs erected barricades on the main roads in the north of the former Serbian province to protest the arrest of a former Kosovo Serb police officer

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Serbia's president says Belgrade seeks to deescalate situation in Kosovo

Serbia demands the release of all arrested Serbs from northern Kosovo, but also seeks to defuse tensions there following tensions in the restive region, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday.

Reuters

Serbs in Kosovo clash with police as ethnic tensions flare

Serb protesters in northern Kosovo blocked main roads for a second day on Sunday following a nighttime exchange of fire with police after the arrest of a former Serb policeman, amid rising tensions between authorities and Kosovo's Serb minority.

Al Jazeera

Kosovo postpones local election in ethnic-Serb-dominated north

The election was due as ethnic Serb representatives resigned to protest a ban on Serbia-issued vehicle licence plates.

Al Jazeera

Serbia’s Vucic seeks NATO approval to send forces to north Kosovo

Serbian president said he was under ‘no illusion’ that NATO would agree to his request amid tension in northern Kosovo.

Reuters

Serbia to ask NATO to deploy Serb military, police in Kosovo - Vucic

Serbia will ask NATO peacekeepers to let it deploy Serbian military and police in Kosovo, in line with the provisions of a UN Security Council resolution which ended a war there in 1999, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday.

Reuters

EU drafts new proposal for Kosovo-Serbia ties - senior EU diplomat

The European Union has drafted a new proposal for normalisation of ties between Kosovo and Serbia with a clear timeline of actions, according to a senior EU diplomat, speaking on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

EU, Western Balkans to boost partnership amid Ukraine war

EU leaders and their Western Balkans counterparts are to meet for talks aimed at boosting their partnership as Russia's war in Ukraine threatens to reshape the geopolitical balance in the region

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