NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR, announced on Tuesday that it is conducting "engineering operations" in northern Kosovo to remove some vehicles that are still blocking roads there. 

For 20 days in a row, in December 2022, in the four northern municipalities inhabited by a majority of Serbs, barricades were placed on the roads leading to the Kosovo-Serbia border points. 

The barricades were set up in protest at the arrest of a former Kosovo Serb police officer who, according to Kosovo authorities, is suspected of organizing an attack on the offices of the Central Election Commission in the north. 

However, the Serbs decided to remove the barricades after Dejan Pantiq's security measure was changed from detention to house arrest. 

Likewise, the representatives of the Serbs in Kosovo, during a meeting in Raška, Serbia, with the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, on December 28 declared that they had received guarantees that the demands of the Serbs for the removal of the barricades would be met. 

Otherwise, some trucks, which blocked the road in the location known as Shkëmbi i Dudes in North Mitrovica, were burned on December 29. 

In KFOR's announcement on Twitter, it was said that the operation to remove vehicles blocked on the road is being done to restore freedom of movement in that area, the Radio Free Europe reported.