U.S., EU envoys urge Kosovo and Serbia not to fuel violence

Kosovo Serbs block the road near the village of Rudine, North Mitrovica, Kosovo December 13, 2022.REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Envoys from the European Union and the United States have called on Kosovo and Serbia to remain calm and not fuel an ongoing ethnic crisis in Kosovo's north where local Serbs have erected barricades to prevent police movement.

Serb protesters in northern Kosovo have blocked main roads and exchanged fire with police after the arrest of a former Serb policeman for allegedly attacking Kosovo institutions and officials during rising tensions between authorities and Kosovo's Serb minority.