Kosovo police release Serbs arrested on Tuesday morning

But Pristina-based newspaper Koha Ditore is reporting that the five men have been released "immediately after they were questioned."

Director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric held an unscheduled news conference upon hearing about the arrests, and warned Pristina that Belgrade would freeze the Kosovo dialogue unless the Serbs have been released by this evening.

According to a statement issued the Kosovo police earlier in the day, the arrest operation was conducted in several locations, while those detained engaged in "activities against the constitutional order and security of Kosovo."

The Kosovo police also "refuted some Serbian media/portals" who reported that the operation was aimed against former members of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) who recently left the formation - and described these reports as "merely speculation."

Belgrade-based media said that members of the special forces of the Kosovo police entered early this morning the premises of the Cultural and Educational Center Bozidar Mitrovic Sandor in the village of Silovo.

According to RTS, Serb sources in Pomoravlje said that the head of the Kosovo Pomoravlje District, Radovan Stojkovic, and the director of the National Employment Service in Gnjilane, Jovan Denic, have both been arrested. The daily Blic reported this as well.

According to the media, Nenad Stojanovic, a car mechanic employed by the Serbian Army in the town of Vranje, has also been detained.

The operation began early this morning when members of the special police blocked the houses of the district chief and the director of the Employment Service in Gornji Kusac, and began a search, eyewitness told an RTS journalist.

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