The Serbian military has started exercises near Kosovo.
RT:
Serbian Army units kicked off exercises near the administrative boundary with Kosovo on Wednesday. Though their timing coincides with the deadline given by Pristina authorities for implementing the controversial ban on Serbian documents, Belgrade insists the drills are entirely routine.
“The training is carried out to preserve the high level of combat readiness of the units involved, and their capability to, if needed, quickly react to establish peace and security along the administrative line,” the Serbian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
“Particular attention is paid to drills simulating an attack on the unit and the tactics, techniques and procedures to stop illegal crossings, extremist group operations and organized crime,” the military in Belgrade added.
Local residents have reported sightings of trucks, armored vehicles, and even tanks near Raska and Novi Pazar, cities nearest to the two administrative crossings with the breakaway province, where ethnic Albanian authorities tried to interdict traffic with Serbian documents last month.
They’re saying this is routine. Of course, everything that’s been happening in the past few months has been anything but routine. There’s been all sorts of agitations directed at Serbs living in the NATO-occupied region of Kosovo over documents, license plates and what not. Even though the tensions have deescalated a bit, this situation is far from being fully resolved.
Kosovo is a totally fake country propped up by NATO forces. Kosovo is Serbia and at some point the Serbs will take it back. These exercises could potentially be a prelude to that.
