Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić has stated that no soldiers or police officers from Serbia have crossed the border into Kosovo.
He said that Serbian police arrested three Kosovo police officers 1.8 kilometers away from the border.
“These individuals have no business in the Tresava-Batnjik area without the approval of KFOR,” Vučić said on Serbian Radio Television (RTS), adding that the Serbian Army was 20 kilometers away from the place of arrest.
Vučić said that “we are at a crossroads whether we will continue to have peace or not”.
He accused Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti of wanting to “provoke war and conflicts” under any condition.
“We will see what the true intentions of those arrested were,” he said.
Commenting on media reports that the Government of Kosovo has halted imports of goods from Serbia, Vučić said that this shows that “you want to torture people in the north, deprive them of medicine and basic food”.
The Government of Kosovo decided to ban the entry of vehicles with Serbia’s license plates into the state’s territory.
The Kosovo Police stated that on the afternoon of June 14th, three police officers were suspected to have been abducted by Serbian forces during a patrol in an area called Tresave/Bare on the northern border of Kosovo.
The Police described it as a “classic organized kidnapping” within the territory of Kosovo.
The location of Tresave/Bare is in the municipality of Leposavić, within the territory of Kosovo.
State leaders in Kosovo have condemned this action, which they have referred to as an “act of aggression”, and have called on the international community to condemn Serbia and for the police officers to be immediately released.
