Kosovo: Serbia puts troops on high alert over rising tensions - BBC

The Serbian service says it is astatine its "highest level of combat readiness" aft weeks of escalating tensions betwixt Serbia and Kosovo.

President Aleksandar Vucic says helium volition "take each measures to support our radical and sphere Serbia".

The sabre-rattling is louder than ever and follows media claims that Pristina is preparing "an attack" connected taste Serb areas successful northbound Kosovo.

The authorities successful Pristina has made nary remark astir the allegations.

But it has antecedently accused Mr Vucic of playing "games" to disturbance up trouble.

The European Union has been attempting to mediate.

The 27-member bloc is calling for "maximum restraint and contiguous action", and for the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo to "personally lend to a governmental solution".

Serbia refuses to recognise Kosovo arsenic an autarkic state.

Kosovo, which has an overwhelmingly taste Albanian majority, broke distant from Serbia aft a warfare successful 1998-99.

Nato, which has peacekeeping troops successful Kosovo, has called connected each parties to debar provocations. The EU has warned it volition not tolerate attacks connected EU constabulary oregon transgression acts.