Serbian Army Put on Highest Alert Over Kosovo Tensions
- Full combat readiness ordered by head of state Vucic
- Kosovo has demanded end of Serb protests, road blockades
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Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered the nation’s army on full alert after weeks of rising tensions in neighboring Kosovo where the local Serb minority has been confronting the authorities over new registration requirements, putting up road blockades and holding protests that threaten to tip into violence, the defense ministry says.
“The President of the Republic of Serbia, as the supreme commander, ordered this evening that the Serbian Army is on highest combat readiness,” Defense Minister Milos Vucevic said in an emailed statement Dec. 26.