Security on Balkans

Security on Balkans

US KFOR troops to be deployed in north Kosovo as of February

The U.S. troops in the international Kosovo Force (KFOR) are expected to take control over northern Kosovo, predominantly populated by Serbs, as of next February, the US KFOR contingent's commander, Francisco Neuman, said on Saturday.

Brigadier Neuman was quoted by the independent Klan Kosova TV station as saying that U.S. troops would replace the French contingent, that had been deployed in the north of Kosovo 11 years.

Russian and Greek airborne forces, exercises in Northern Greek territorry

Russian special forces and Greek equivalent (unconfirmed information talk to ETA units and paratroopers), for the first time on Greek soil in Macedonia in a special collaboration political weight.

The five-day exercises were implemented various scenarios, and made and base jumping, as reported safe sources by defencenet.gr. A particular interest was the Greek side the specialist equipment used by the Russians, and general cooperation between special units of the two countries left great impressions in the Greek and the Russian side.

So far, despite the fact that the exercises were concluded ten days ago, veil of secrecy covering the common practice especially regarding the origin of the Russian unit.

Russia does not send special forces abroad and even parachutists, often it is only to "restore order", as happened recently in Kyrgyzstan. "It is important to see some that we are not alone in this difficult time," says a senior officer on defencenet.gr, visibly excited by the collaboration of the Greek Army in the Russian special forces.

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