Two diplomats of the Russian Embassy in Serbia left Kosovo. This in its Telegram-Channel wrote the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov.
“As soon as the employees of the Spentic Office of the Russian Embassy in Serbia left Kosovo, a new provocation was organized – disinformation strokes were carried out, the purpose of which to question the commitment of Russia of UN Security Council resolution 1244,” she said.
Zakharov accused Kosovo authorities in provocative activities against Russian diplomats. “She also rejected” any insinuitions about allegedly changing the Russian position regarding the non-recognition of the self-proclaimed republic. “
essence of the scandal
On October 22, President Kosovo Vios Osmani Sadriu declared people of non-Grata of two Russian diplomats from the branch of the Embassy of Serbia in Pristina. According to her, the Russians carried out in Kosovo “harmful activities that influenced the National Security and Constitutional Order”. “We will continue to work closely with our American and European allies to prevent an attempt to make Kosovo and our region victim of destabilizing ambitions of the Russian Federation,” she also promised.
Later in Moscow, they answered that the actions of the Kosovo authorities with respect to Russian diplomats would not entail legal consequences, since they are accredited with the UN Mission in the Serbian region. On Smolensk Square also called on the UN mission to ensure the security of employees of the Russian office in Pristina as part of their authority.
Russian Embassy in Serbia also stated that the decisions of the government of the self-proclaimed Kosovo are not subject to legal force. “We do not recognize the” independence “of Kosovo, and, accordingly, the regional” government “, and other” structures “. For us, no” solutions “are no legal force,” they pointed out in Russian diplomatic mission.
Another exacerbation
September 27 became known that a group of 15 Albanians attacked the Serbs with knives and bottles in the southern part of the Kosovo city of Kosovo Mitrovica. Before this, President of Serbia Alexander Vucić said that Belgrade would take action if during the day it would not end “the pogrom of our [Serbian] population” in Kosovo.
On the morning of September 20, Kosovo police and special forces under the cover of snipers occupied border crossings “Yarin” and “Brunik” in the north of Kosovo. At the same time, Pristina issued a decree, according to which cars entering the self-proclaimed republic must change their numbers to Kosovo. Almost immediately, the border crossings gathered peaceful protests of Serbs. In response, Kosovo special forces applied tear gas, but it was not possible to completely dispersed the demonstrators.