June 20 (SeeNews) - Kosovo's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Serbian protestors have blocked the Jarinje, Merdare and Bernjak crossings at the border with Kosovo.
People have been advised against travelling to Serbia, or if they have already entered Serbia, to use alternative crossings in Mutivoda, Dheu and Bardhe, or to take the route through North Macedonia, the Kosovo foreign ministry said in a post on its Facebook page.
According to Serbian state broadcaster RTS, the protests at the border come following the arrest of a Serbian citizen on Monday for alleged involvement in an attack on Kosovo journalists.
"In the last three days, there were three arrests for brutal and criminal attacks on journalists reporting from the north of the country," Kosovo's interior minister, Xhelal Zvecla, said in a social media post on Monday.
Last week, Serbia's interior ministry said the antiterrorist unit of the country's police force arrested three fully armed Kosovo Albanians one kilometre into Serbian territory. According to Kosovo prime minister Albin Kurti, however, they were three Kosovo border guards who were kidnapped by Serbian police officers.
Last week, Kosovo banned vehicles with Serbian license plates from entering the country, after Serbia arrested three Kosovo policemen
In May, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) deployed additional forces in Kosovo after 30 soldiers of the Alliance-led international peacekeeping force, KFOR, were injured in clashes with ethnic Serb protestors in the Serb-dominated northern part of the country.