“U killed as doves”, former commander of the Serbian Army: Security services in Serbia are surprised by Kosovo Police's response, didn't expect such reaction

He has further said Serbia is surprised by the Kosovo Special Unit's response that, according to him, Serbia's security organs had not expected such a response.

The one thing is whether they knew about the existence of armed Serb formation and knew who led that formation and what their goals are. Authorities in Belgrade were surprised by the Kosovo Police's move, and this shows how badly Serbia has been destroyed in terms of security”, Ponos has said.

According to him, the state leadership has remained surprised by yesterday's events in Banjska, which confirms, as he said, that Belgrade is unable to control the situation in Kosovo.

“If the regime in Belgrade is not up-to-date with the armed organisation of Serbs in the north, who have many reasons to feel threatened and left behind, then that's a problem. The other problem is whether the regime has information for Serb armed organisations and does not control them. The biggest victims of these problems in controlling the situation are Serbs in Kosovo, and the young ones someone has lured to become rebels, and they are obviously untrained and were sacrificed yesterday and killed as pigeons”, Ponosh has declared.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq cited the surveillance of Kurti's aides as the most important information received by Serbian intelligence agencies”, but for former general commander of Serbia's army, “is scandalous”.

Meanwhile, he has asked what Serbian security services serve.

We need to ask ourselves what Serbia's security services serve. If they have known about the armed self-organisation of Serbs in Kosovo and have allowed young people to be killed this way, then we are in a real big problem”, he said.

“Belgrade occasionally makes headlines with the military near the border with Kosovo and increases the expectations of Serbs in Kosovo. Vuciq gives strong patriotic speeches full of nationalist burdens, but in fact Serbs in Kosovo left them alone. We can't expect anything good because yesterday international actors behaved very strange. KFOR was silent and the image of the Serbian issue in Kosovo was damaged at the expense of Serbian interests. In recent months, because of Kurt's unreasonable behaviour, Serbs had diplomatic advantage, but a major damage was done yesterday. It is possible that someone will now use the events in Banjska to close the book on Kosovo, which Vuciq and Kurti accepted in Brussels and Ohrid”, Ponos said.

While the head of Serbia's Centre Party (SRCE), Zdravko Ponos, has been general commander of Serbia's military until 2008, reports nspm.rs.