On June 12, 1999, the Serbian state, police, military and paramilitary apparatus would be handed over to Kosovo in the face of the North Atlantic Alliance, which marks the beginning of the entry of NATO forces into our country.

The Kumanovo agreement marks the end of the Kosovo war, where Serbia is forced to withdraw all military forces and administration, ie a practical departure.

A few hours before NATO starts the entry of its forces in Kosovo, the Russians, out of any prediction, send from Bosnia and Herzegovina a contingent of their army in Kosovo, reports Telegrafi.

June 11 marks the 23rd anniversary of a sad day for Kosovo on the eve of its liberation, but as a symbol also gives the future of the country in relation to the Russian Federation, which, unfortunately, does not differ from the destructive policy of Moscow even before the date in question.

May 20, 1999

In the fighting with the Serbian occupying forces in Koshare, the Kosovo Liberation Army stated that it had also killed a Russian mercenary, who was fighting alongside the Serbs.

He was a Russian army officer.

Foreign news agencies published documents and the KLA press conference, which argued the participation of Russians in the genocidal war against the people of Kosovo.

June 9, 1999

The Russian Federation vetoed, for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a resolution proposed in relation to Kosovo to the United Nations Security Council, which brought back (since 1990) a point in relations. irritated Russia and western countries.

The next day, June 10, Resolution 1244 was adopted, authorizing the civilian and military missions to be present in Kosovo.

June 11, 1999

An armored convoy of Russian forces or about 200 soldiers enters Kosovo, initially stopping in Pristina.

The Albanian majority would experience this night as the saddest night of all the fierce war in Kosovo.

Serbs will welcome them with alcoholic beverages and flowers, as a sign of non-implementation of the Kumanovo Agreement, reached the day before.

Former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov would tell CNN that the entry of Russian soldiers into Kosovo is a unfortunate mistake, and that they have been ordered to leave Kosovo immediately.

In fact, such a thing did not happen, which gave the first signal in the example of Kosovo that the Russians do not keep their word.

The convoy of Russian forces had previously walked the streets of Belgrade, Telegrafi reports.

June 12, 1999

The Russians, after no agreement, were secretly stationed at Pristina Airport.

An armed confrontation was averted, following a peace deal between NATO and the Russians, on the condition that the airport be under joint supervision until October 15, 1999. A time when the Russians had to leave.

August 23, 1999

At the entrance to Rahovec / Orahovac, Albanian citizens barricaded themselves to prevent Russian troops from entering the town.

The Russians accused them of opposing NATO bombing of the Serbian state genocidal apparatus, and were even complicit in the crimes they committed against Albanian civilians.

September 6, 1999

In the Serb-majority village of Korminjan, near Gjilan / Gnjilane, three Serbs were killed by Russian forces who had meanwhile joined the KFOR contingent.

May 23, 2000

Russian KFOR forces stopped a car carrying AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj and one of the leaders, Ahmet Isufin, both commanders of KLA operational areas.

After a dispute, there was a physical clash between them, instigated by the Russians for ethnic motives.

June 17, 2001

Russia's new president, Vladimir Putin, visits the Russian KFOR contingent at Pristina Airport.

September 4, 2001

In a nightclub, on the outskirts of Pristina, after an armed conflict, two members of the Russian KFOR forces were wounded.

The conflict followed an attempt by the Russians to kidnap a worker at the bar.

After several controversial statements by the Russian KFOR contingent, it was finally said that only one of the Russians had been wounded.

Meanwhile, it was learned that one of the wounded was a member of the Russian military intelligence service GRU, Aleksey Kondratyev.

The same, at the end of 2019 was nominated to be elected rapporteur for Kosovo within the Council of Europe, reports Telegrafi.

July 2, 2003

The contingent of Russian KFOR military troops ends.

The Russians, after 4 years, withdraw from Kosovo.

The withdrawal took place on the orders of Vladimir Putin.

Russian members in Kosovo recorded many incidents, from sexual assaults on Serb women in enclaves, attempted kidnappings in nightclubs to clashes and killings.

Their stay in Kosovo was followed by protests in all localities that were present in Kosovo.

May 14, 2007

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is visiting Moscow in a bid to persuade Russia not to veto a UN Security Council Resolution on Kosovo.

On the other hand, Russia not only threatened to veto that resolution, but also introduced a draft counter-resolution to the Security Council, which provided a model of "monitored or supervised" autonomy for Kosovo, and called for further talks. which included Serbia, as a requirement for a possible agreement.

February 25, 2008

A few days after the declaration of Kosovo's Independence, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, was received in Belgrade by the Prime Minister of Serbia, Vojislav Kostunica.

In addition to the statements of both parties, against the declaration of Kosovo's Independence, an important agreement was signed on the Russian gas pipeline and the privatization of the Serbian Oil Industry by the Russians.

Researchers in Serbia say that in fact the Russians conditioned Belgrade on refusing to recognize Kosovo with the privatization of NIS, for a symbolic sum.

Since then, the Russians have consistently maintained a tougher stance towards the Republic of Kosovo.

April 15, 2008

Konstantin Kosachev, Russia's representative to the Council of Europe, had initiated a motion against Kosovo for a resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe entitled "Inhuman treatment of people and illegal trafficking in human organs in Kosovo".

This resolution preceded the Dick Marty Report and the establishment of the Special Court, which had been used by Russia and Serbia to tarnish the image of the KLA war, Albanians and the state of Kosovo, with fabricated allegations by the services. Serbian and Russian secrets.

Kosachev was part of another initiative, which took place in the Council of Europe, which aimed to adopt a resolution condemning "KFOR killings of Serbs in Kosovo", which did not pass.

October 8, 2008

Russia addressed the UN General Assembly with a request for advisory opinion on whether the declaration of Independence of the Republic of Kosovo was in accordance with international law.

April 16, 2009

The Russian Federation submitted a forty-page statement to the International Court of Justice, describing the arguments and concluding that "the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo is not in accordance with international law."

The Russians did this in support of Serbia, which sent the case to this Court for an opinion on Kosovo's independence.

Later, the Court said that "the declaration of Kosovo's Independence was not made in violation of international law", reports Telegrafi.

December 12, 2011

Accompanied by the Russian ambassador, Alexander Konuzin, a convoy of 27 trucks with about 284 tons of "humanitarian aid" was set off for the northern Serbs, organized in illegal and criminal structures of Kosovo, who had set up barricades in the streets, to prevent movements of the authorities of the Republic of Kosovo and KFOR forces.

Meanwhile, it was confirmed that the "humanitarian aid" was auxiliary equipment for barricades, such as tents, camping equipment and electric generators.

April 27, 2014

At the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in Nis, recognized by Western countries as a center of espionage, the Serbian illegal and criminal structures of the "Civil Protection", which were extinguished by one of the agreements between Kosovo and Serbia and the mediation of the EU, received a gift from Russia 10 off-road vehicles, Lada Niva.

A day later, former Russian KGB intelligence chief Leonid Reshetnikov, who will meanwhile become director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), visited Belgrade.

14 January 2017

A train donated to Serbia by the Russian Federation, decorated with the Russian flag and orthodox church icons, was stopped by the authorities of the Republic of Kosovo from entering one of the northern border crossings with Serbia.

November 20, 2018

In an international meeting, in Kosovo's attempt to join INTERPOL, Russia votes against, thus displaying destructive policies.

March 21, 2019

The Russian Federation launches a cinematic campaign as one of the propaganda forms against Kosovo, with the screening of the premiere of the film "Balkan Line", which talks about the landing of Russian forces in Kosovo in 1999. The propaganda film tries to hide the genocide in Kosovo carried out by the Serbian state apparatus, and presents the same to victims of NATO and the KLA.

It is paradoxical, because the film was shot in Crimea, a peninsula of Ukraine occupied by the Russians, where as mercenaries there were also Serbian war criminals in Kosovo and other parts of the former Yugoslavia, reports Telegrafi.

May 28, 2019

The Russian official of UNMIK, Mikhail Krasnochenko, had used the UNMIK vehicle and a chainsaw with which a tree was cut in the form of a barricade, in order to obstruct the action of the Kosovo Police in Zubin Potok and in country level, to fight corruption, organized crime, bribery and smuggling of goods.

Krasnochenko, was arrested and then deported from Kosovo, failing in his mission to incite unrest in Kosovo's northern municipalities.

The Russian employee was accused of carrying out espionage activities in Kosovo, using UNMIK as a cover.

December 31, 2021

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora at the end of 2021 had declared non-women a Russian official of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in Kosovo.

Andrey Nikolaevich Antonov has been engaged in magnifying the pro-Russian element in the blockades that had taken place in northern Kosovo in September 2021, when Serbs were opposing reciprocity measures with license plates.

He first came to Kosovo in 2001, as part of a mission with Russian police, which lasted only about a year.

He then returned from 2005 to 2008, eventually settling in 2011 to live in Gracanica with his wife Natasha.

April 27, 2022

At a time when Russia is using aggression to commit genocide, killing even the children and innocent Ukrainian civilians, its president Vladimir Putin has found time several times within the meeting with UN chief Antonio Guterres to mention Kosovo and compare it. the declaration of its independence with the developments in Ukraine.

This is not the first time Putin has used Kosovo in reference to compare the situation in Ukraine, to annex two of its regions.

On the other hand, the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, and the Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, since the beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, have said that Russia and Putin are a serious threat to the destabilization of the Balkans, in particular Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, using Serbia as a state. contributes to the destabilization of the region.

/ Telegraphy /