Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo are reportedly under fire and fury for many reasons, with incidents following one another, while the apparent "calm" in the region is seen as a "break" before the ultimate "storm".
German Bundeswehr Brigadier General Ralph Hammerstein said that ¨the security in Kosovo is deteriorating daily to a significant degree, and NATO will sharply increase its presence in the spring, with the help of the German Armed Forces¨.
The German senior officer told the German newspaper Die Welt that Serbian nationalists are already mobilizing en masse in Serbia and that the unstable situation in the Western Balkans is fulfilling the wishes of Russia, and Vladimir Putin.
"It has been almost 25 years since NATO intervened in the former Yugoslavia in 1999 and forced Serbian troops to withdraw from Kosovo.
The Alliance then established the KFOR mission to stabilise the situation and continues to do so to this day. Even more troops will be needed soon in the future," said Brigadier General Ralph O Hammerstein.
The normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia is not progressing, he stressed, adding that no border in the Western Balkans can be established in good faith.
The German officer's statements were prompted by an attack by Serbs on an Albanian policeman
The Deputy Director of the Kosovo Police for the North, Veton Elsani, gave details of the attack on a member of the Kosovo Police in the north on Tuesday night.
Elshani said police tried to stop the person from the Serb community until the moment the policeman got out of the car, and the suspect tried to flee in a car but was arrested.
Elsani said the suspect is currently being questioned by police.
"The police tried to stop a person from the Serbian community at the moment the officer got out of the car, accelerated the car and ran away from the scene. Most likely he is scared. The person has been arrested and is currently giving a statement to the Kosovo police together with his wife," Elsani said.
The crisis in Kosovo and Bosnia is a matter of opportunity and time is running out
In northern Kosovo, Serb organizations with close ties to Russian mercenary organizations are causing intense concern not only locally but throughout the Balkans.
At the same time, NATO is increasing its power in Kosovo, with an eye on Bosnia, where the Serbs are preparing for autonomy from the Sarajevo government, which has been in sight for two years, and will reportedly have the help of the Russians, under conditions that will probably be reminiscent of Kosovo in 1999.
The West is unaware that the problem in the region was not solved in 1995 in Bosnia nor in 1999 in Kosovo, since every incident in Kosovo "smacks of" generalisation, which under certain conditions could develop into a local military conflict.
Everything is essentially in "artificial repression" in the former Yugoslav province, since Serbs and Albanians know better than anyone else that the time is approaching for another military confrontation, due to ethnic issues, since Belgrade will not allow pogroms against the remaining 50,000 Serbs in Mitrovica.
Any crisis in these two regions could automatically spill over to Skopje and Albania, reaching next to us on the Northern Border, and this scenario is possible due to recent developments in the war in Ukraine.
