Speaking exclusively to Sky News at the Munich Security Conference, Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani has accused the Russian president of attempting to export conflict to her country and others including Moldova and Georgia.
She says Russia is using methods it employed in eastern Ukraine to foment civil war and destabilise the country in 2014."They bring in paramilitary forces that are dressed in civilians within our territory through illegal routes, and then they send in weapons and they also send in green uniforms without insignia so that it doesn't look like a traditional military attack.
Kosovo won independence after the Kosovo War that followed the break up of Yugoslavia and the intervention ofKosovo accuses Russia of helping Serbia stir up separatism among the ethnic Serb minority in the country.Putin is trying to 'exhaust the West' President Osmani says the international community is not doing enough to deter Russia from meddling in her county and others.
"Look, sometimes we feel just like when Poland and the Baltics were warning that this is exactly what's going to happen many, many years ago, that Russia is going to go with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and not just Ukraine, because they see other neighbours as temporary states.
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