Russia warns about renewed ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo

  The situation between Kosovo and Serbia is worsening, after a group of ethnic Serb armed men attacked a patrol of Kosovar agents on Sunday, killing one of them and barricading themselves in the Banjska monastery, along the road from the capital Pristina to the border Serbian. "They had a plan to destabilize the country," said the Kosovar government, revealing that it had found weapons and uniforms for an army of hundreds of men. The geopolitical reflection of the clash between blocs can also be clearly deduced from the positions of Moscow and Washington.

According to the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, the escalation in Kosovo is a "direct consequence" of the policy adopted by the prime minister, Albin Kurti, and focused on the "ethnic cleansing" of the Serbs. He defines it as a continuous game with fire, "which brings the entire Balkan region to the brink of the abyss" caused by the "Albanian extremists of Kosovo". The American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, defends the Kosovar police, according to whom "the authors they must be held responsible for this crime through a transparent investigative process." At the same time, however, he called on the two countries to reduce tensions.