The commander of KFOR, Major General Angelo Michele Ristuccia, visited this Friday, June 1, the injured Italian soldiers at the Villagio Italia camp in Peja, where he congratulated them for the work they had done during the May 29 clashes in the north of Kosovo.

“Be proud of what you did, you acted in full compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 1999, intervening between two opposing sides and preventing a clash that would have certainly led to a large number of civilian victims”, said Ristuccia to the injured soldiers, according to the KFOR announcement.

The injured Italian soldiers will return to Italy during the following days for recovery, according to the announcement by the Italian Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto.

Meanwhile, the day before, Ristuccia together with Admiral Stuart B. Munsch, commander of the Allied Joint Forces Command in Naples, had also visited the injured Hungarian soldiers.