The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, said on Tuesday that Milan Radoičić gave the order to carry out the attack on the Ibër-Lepenci canal on November 29, while the state of Serbia is responsible for the financing, planning and logistics of the attack.

In a press conference, Kurti said that he bases these statements on intelligence data.

According to him, the support offered by official Belgrade to what it has called the terrorist group of Millan Radoicic, cannot be called anything other than the coordination of the Serbian state with this group to intensify the hybrid war against Kosovo.

Kurti has presented a chronology of 15 attacks, which according to him, were intended to harm Kosovo “in a terrorist manner” from June 30 to November 29 of this year, and which culminated with the attack on the Ibër-Lepenci canal.

The Ibër-Lepenci canal was attacked on November 29 in the village of Varrag in the municipality of Zubin Potok – a municipality with a Serbian majority in the north of the country.

The Kosovo Police said that the attack was carried out with explosives weighing up to 20 kilograms.

The Ibër-Lepenc Canal supplies water from Lake Ujman to the entire north of Kosovo, the regions of Mitrovica, Pristina and its surroundings, as well as the Kosovo Energy Corporation for cooling its thermal power plants.

Kurti said that Radoicic – who is currently believed to be free in Serbia – has authorized people to carry out attacks in Kosovo several times during the year.

Milan Radoicic is wanted by the Kosovo authorities, after admitting to organizing and carrying out the attack in Banjska of Zvecan in September 2023.

As a result of this attack, which Kosovo considers terrorist and blames Serbia, the sergeant of the Kosovo Police, Afrim Bunjaku, was killed.

Serbia, on the other hand, rejects these accusations.