Kosovo declared independence in 2008 but Serbia refuses to recognise this and has repeatedly warned it will protect local Serbs 'with all means' if they are attacked.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008 but Serbia refuses to recognise this and has repeatedly warned it will protect local Serbs"with all means" if they are attacked.Serbian security forces on the border with Kosovo have been placed on a state of"full combat readiness".
The order was given by Serbia's interior minister Bratislav Gasic, who said he was acting on instructions from President Aleksandar Vucic so that"all measures be taken to protect the Serbian people in Kosovo".It comes after weeks of escalating tension between the two sides, with ethnic Serbs claiming they are being harassed by the ethnic Albanian majority in
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