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Serbia denies troop buildup near Kosovo border region
Updated On: 02 October, 2023 08:13 AM IST | Belgrade | Agencies
Kosovo’s government said Saturday it was monitoring the movements of the Serbian military from “three different directions.” It urged Serbia to immediately pull back its troops and demilitarize the border area
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Tensions grew after heavily armed Serbs stormed the Kosovo village of Banjska. Pic/Twitter
Serbia’s president on Sunday denied US and other reports of a military buildup along the border with Kosovo, complaining of a “campaign of lies” against his country in the wake of a shootout a week earlier that killed four people and fueled tensions in the volatile Balkan region.
Both the US and the European Union expressed concern earlier this week about what they said was an increased military deployment by Serbia’s border with its former province, and they urged Belgrade to scale down its troop presence there.
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