Serbia Trying to Create a Crimea in Kosovo; President Osmani

The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, in an interview for "Reuters" has accused Serbia and President Aleksandar Vucic of being the ones behind the attack in the North of Kosovo. Osmani stated that according to her, Vucic's goal is to create "Crimea in the Republic of Kosovo". 

"What I would say to President Vucic is to stop messing with Kosovo. Kosovo will defend its freedom, independence and sovereignty at any cost," Osmani said. They are trying to create a model of Crimea in the Republic of Kosovo, but we absolutely will not allow this to happen", she added. 

Furthermore, the President stated that there is a possibility that such attacks will be repeated again, while she asked the international community to do everything so that Serbia does not support such groups. 

"I am very worried that such attacks, even bigger ones, could happen in the future if Serbia is not punished, first of all, for this terrorist act of aggression," she said. 

Kosovo and Serbia have been in talks for more than a decade to normalize relations, in a mediation process led by the European Union. Earlier this year they agreed to a deal proposed by the EU, but since then they have been unable to agree how to implement it. 

Osmani said that the talks between the two cannot continue as before. 

"It's absolutely not like before anymore," she said. "We have been victims of an aggression by Serbia and everyone should treat it as such, even in their approach to Serbia from now on," she declared to Reuters. 

Meanwhile, the Kosovo government has published facts showing that the group was trained, armed and received other support from the Belgrade government and security agencies. 

Kosovo authorities said police battled about 30 heavily armed Serbs who stormed the village of Banjska on Sunday and settled in a Serbian Orthodox monastery. 

During the Anti-terror operation, the Kosovo police managed to kill three Serbian terrorists, while they arrested eight others as suspects for involvement in the terrorist attack, six of whom were released due to lack of evidence. 

In addition to this, the law enforcement agencies also seized weapons, which, according to Prime Minister Kurti's statements, reach the value of 5 million euros.