North Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police raided the Kosovska Mitrovica office of the Serbian Tax Administration on Wednesday morning.

The raid in the northern part of the town began at around 9 am and the office was searched, Most TV reported.

BELGRADE - The simultaneous sparking of crises in Kosovo-Metohija and Republika Srpska, followed by efforts to weaken Serbia internally to render it unable to protect Serbs living outside of Serbia and maintain stability within itself, is a part of a hybrid war against Serbia, Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin said in an interview for Vecernje novosti.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said Pristina's police raid on the building of a Serbian urban planning enterprise on Friday was a continuation of terror against Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at a government session on Tuesday he expected Albin Kurti's regime in Pristina to blame the Serbs for a recent attack on the Ibar-Lepenac canal in Kosovo-Metohija to stop Srpska lista from running in the upcoming elections in the province.

Srpska lista is a political party of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Monday he had briefed EU member states over the past two weeks on the state of play in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and announced that he would have a "packed schedule of meetings and official missions" in the coming weeks.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Srpska lista, a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, announced on Friday it would run in the February 9 elections in the province, noting that it was the only party representing the interests of Serbs living there.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday no Serbian authority or official, or anyone who could be associated with Serbia, had been involved in a recent incident in which a canal at Zubin Potok, northern Kosovo-Metohija, was damaged by an explosion.

Speaking to the RTS, Dacic said Serbian police had received no query from Pristina regarding that criminal act.

ZUBIN POTOK - Srpska lista deputy leader Dragisa Milovic said on Monday Serbs in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were subjected to torture by Pristina's so-called special police in the wake of a blast that had damaged the Ibar-Lepenac canal in the Varage village.

Srpska lista is a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

BELGRADE - In a public address about the incident in Zubin Potok and the current situation in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said a major, fierce hybrid attack against Serbia had been attempted on Saturday.

BRUSSELS - Even though people in Brussels know which side is blocking progress in the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, they "would never say that publicly," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has told Brussels-based internet portal Politico.eu.

"The EU and the Americans agree with us," Vucic said in an interview.