Britain sends an additional 200 soldiers to Kosovo. Here you support the NATO peacekeeping mission KFOR. The first have already arrived in the capital Pristina.
The first British soldiers to reinforce the NATO peacekeeping mission KFOR in view of the tensions between Serbia and Kosovo have arrived in Kosovo’s capital Pristina. NATO and the British Ministry of Defense announced this in the evening. London had previously announced that, at the request of the defense alliance, it would strengthen the previously 400-strong British contingent with 200 additional soldiers as part of an annual exercise in Kosovo.
It was a “prudent step to ensure that KFOR has the forces it needs to fulfill its UN mandate and ensure a safe environment and freedom of movement for all people in Kosovo,” a NATO spokesman wrote the platform X (formerly Twitter). The British Ministry of Defense said the troops would be available under NATO command to carry out operations in line with KFOR’s mandate.
The new tensions were triggered by the attack by an armed Serbian commando group on Kosovar police officers in northern Kosovo at the end of September. Three Serbian attackers and a Kosovar police officer were killed.
Kosovo, which is now almost exclusively inhabited by Albanians, seceded from Serbia in 1999 with NATO help and declared independence in 2008. More than 100 countries, including Germany, recognize independence, but not Serbia, which is reclaiming its former province.
The German Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that a company with 155 additional soldiers would be deployed in Kosovo for a year from April 2024. The expansion was decided regardless of the recent tensions.
Source: Stern
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