The NATO mission in Kosovo KeyFor has started removing the last barricades in Northern Kosovo, KoSSev and Kosovapress reported.

It is about two blocked trucks on the road between Kosovska Mitrovica and Rudare.

More than ten official vehicles were sent to the scene, most of them belonging to KeyFor.

On 29 December, the removal of barricades began in northern Kosovo, with the Kosovo Serbs removing most of the barricades, but the two trucks burned by them remained.

Kosovo Serbs erected the first barricades on December 10, blocking roads and some border crossings in northern Kosovo for about twenty days.

Kosovo Serbs have protested the arrest of former Kosovo Serb police officer Dejan Pantic, who Kosovo authorities say organized attacks on election authorities.

After Pantic was released from prison under house arrest, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke with Kosovo Serb representatives in Raška, the removal of barricades in the northern part of Kosovo began. 

The Kosovo Prime Minister called on NATO to increase the number of KFOR forces in Kosovo

The latest escalation of the crisis in Kosovo-Serbia relations began with the decision of the government in Pristina to replace the Serbian license plates on the cars of Kosovo Serbs with Kosovo ones.

Serbian representatives left Kosovo's institutions and police forces, and units of the Kosovo police moved into predominantly Serb-populated areas.

After negotiations and a compromise, Prishtina has for now given up on changing the registration numbers, but the tension was fueled by the arrests of Kosovo Serbs, notes BTA.

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