Kosovo War

Rrustem Mustafa, former commander of Kosovo Liberation Army's wartime Llap Operational Zone, also known by the nom de guerre Remi, told the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague this week in the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants that the guerrilla force mainly functioned from the bottom up and did not have a fully-established chain of command.

VILNIUS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday in Vilnius he was in regular contact with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and ready to meet with him.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Friday President Aleksandar Vucic's latest public address demonstrated that the situation in Kosovo-Metohija was entering a dramatic stage of developments and that there was no indication Pristina would give up on unilateral moves.

PRISTINA - The Kfor mission said on Wednesday there was no evidence of alleged weapons smuggling to Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo-Metohija in ambulances via administrative crossings in the province.

Previously, British MP Alicia Kearns accused the Serbian Orthodox Church of involvement in weapons smuggling from central Serbia to Kosovo-Metohija.

NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR, on Wednesday said it has no evidence that weapons are being smuggled from Serbia to Serbia Orthodox Churches in Kosovo in ambulances, differering from claims made by a UK MP, Alicia Kearns.

As they stated, a routine military exercise will be conducted with the aim of improving the readiness and preparedness of the units.
The announcement states that the soldiers and vehicles of that mission will be deployed in the municipalities of Istok, trpce, Mamusha, Deane, Djakovica, Draga, Elez Han and Elezit Kaanik.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic met with US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Tressa Guenov on Friday and asked the US to use its leverage on Pristina to avert further escalation of conflicts in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

Kosovo on Thursday declared two groups operating in the Serb-majority north of Kosovo Civilna Zastita (Civil Protection) and Brigada Sever (North Brigade) terrorist organisations.

Prizren Basic Court on Tuesday convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army member, Remzi Shala, known by the nom de guerre Molla e Kuqe (The Red Apple) of committing a war crime by kidnapping an ethnic Albanian man from Duhel, a village in the Suhareka/Suva Reka area, during the Kosovo war.

Almost at the same time as the information about the action of the Kosovo Police in Zvean, local residents reported to the Kosovo online portal that the KFOR helicopter had landed in itkovac, in this municipality.
The main street in Zvean is blocked on both sides, writes Kosovo Online.