Unrest in Kosovo's north has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the region's Serb-majority area after April elections boycotted by the Serbs
from Serbia, and consider Belgrade their capital more than two decades after the Kosovo Albanian uprising against repressive Serbian rule.Polish Kosovo Force soldiers stand guard at a municipal office in Zvecan, Kosovo May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
"We're thinking through other implications as well," the U.S. ambassador to Kosovo Jeffrey Hovenier told reporters. Russia, which has long had close ties with Serbia and shares its Slavic and Orthodox Christian traditions, called on Tuesday for "decisive steps" to quell the unrest.
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