Serbs with Kosovo and Metohija start with road blockades

Rojević said that the blockade will be organized by native associations of citizens from Kosovo and Metohija and that four out of five crossings from the direction of central Serbia and Montenegro will be blocked.

As he stated, the blockade will last "until Kosovo police forces are withdrawn from the north of Kosovo and until the usurped institutions are returned to the Serbs".

"We also demand that KFOR, in accordance with the mandate of Resolution 1244, takes over control in the north of Kosovo and Metohija," said Rojević.

According to him, the blockades will last until all the citizens' demands are met.

"We will block the Brnjak, Jarinje and Merdare crossings from the central Serbian side, and the Kula crossing on the Peć-Rožaje road from the Montenegrin side. The Končulj administrative crossing will not be blocked for now. We will only allow hospital vehicles, as well as all other vehicles and passengers with Serbian documents. If Serbian documents are not valid in Kosovo, then documents of the so-called Republic of Kosovo cannot be valid in central Serbia either," Rojević said, adding that at least 400 people will participate in the blockade at each crossing.

Deputy Director of the Kosovo Police for the Northern Region, Veton Elshani, said that the situation at the crossings is not expected to escalate after the announcement of the blockade.

Elshani emphasized that the so-called Kosovo police prepared an operational plan for every possible surprise.

"We believe that everything will be fine, but we advise citizens to avoid these border crossings after 6 p.m. There is no possibility of escalating the situation, if something happens we are here", Elshani said.