Serbia Places Its Troops on Kosovo Border on Combat Alert

Serbian army self-propelled 155 mm gun-howitzers on position near administrative line with Kosovo, south Serbia, on Dec. 26, 2022. Serbian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

MITROVICA, Kosovo—Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness,” and on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier.

The new barriers, made of heavily loaded trucks, were put up overnight in Mitrovica, a northern Kosovo town divided between Kosovo Serbs and ethnic Albanians, who represent the majority in Kosovo as a whole.