Kosovo police officers released at Viktor Orban’s intervention return home + video

The international community welcomes the release of the detained Albanians by the Serb authorities. Deescalation must continue, the EU's enlargement commissioner wrote.

Grenell also described it as pathetic that the representatives of the European Union and Joe Biden’s administration has not visited the region.

it’s sad and pathetic -

but no US or EU official has been to North Mitrovica since this latest crisis began, he wrote.

We confirm that the 3 kidnapped police officers have been released. Even though we are joyous that they get to return to their families, this abduction consists of a serious human rights violation & must be reprimanded. The Serbian aggression must be held accountable.

— Albin Kurti (@albinkurti) June 26, 2023

Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti has also responded to the case of the detained and released policemen. The politician expressed his joy that they get to return to their families, but still considered their detention an abduction and wrote that the Serbian aggression must be held accountable.

On Monday afternoon, Alexandar Vucic had a phone conversation about the situation in Kosovo with US Foreign Secretary Anthony Blinken. Mr Blinken also called for deescalation and added that Washington supports the European plan for that.

Serbia behaves seriously and responsibly, but the special forces of the Kosovo police arrest members of the Serbian people completely arbitrarily every day,

Mr Vucic wrote on Instagram.

Cover photo: US soldiers of the NATO-led Kosovo peacekeeping force KFOR stand guard in front of the town hall in Leposavic on 2 June 2023 (Photo: MTI/EPA/Georgy Litsovski)