New barricades set up at night in Mitrovica.
In northern Kosovo, in the city center of Mitrovica, Kosovo Serbs set up new roadblocks a day after Serbia deployed its troops near the border on a high level of alert.
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New barricades made from heavily loaded trucks were erected overnight in Mitrovica, a city in northern Kosovo divided between Kosovo Serbs and the majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo as a whole.
This was the first time since the beginning of the last crisis that the Serbs had blocked the streets in one of the main cities. So far, barricades have been erected on the roads leading to the Kosovo-Serbian border.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he ordered the army to be placed on the highest state of alert in order to “protect the people (in Kosovo) and preserve Serbia “.
He said that Pristina is preparing to “attack” the Kosovo Serbs in the north of the country and forcefully remove several roadblocks that the Serbs began to set up 18 days ago in protest against the ex-police arrest from the Serbian community.
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The authorities of Kosovo have introduced special forces into the Serb-populated region. Belgrade, in turn, put the army on alert.
