A study by the Ninamedia agency as a part of Atlantic Council of Serbia project “Euro-Atlantic Integration in Serbia’s media” showed that 89 percent of people in the country were against its membership to NATO, while the majority of them, 73 percent, did not even know there was no war in NATO member states, the Beta news agency reported on Tuesday.

The US ambassador to Belgrade Kyle Scott told reporters he was not surprised with the results because the people in Serbia did not forget the 1999 NATO military intervention.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Belgrade based daily Politika that peace and stability in Kosovo has been a priority for this alliance for past 20 years and that the UN mandate for the NATO peacekeeping mission remains unchanged.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Slovenia today the crisis in Kosovo and Metohija was caused by the West's leniency towards Pristina.

According to Sputnik, in conversation with his Slovenian counterpart, Lavrov said that the crisis was caused by those who want to build "a sanitary cordon toward Russia out of the territory of the Balkans" (for the sake of incorporating it all into NATO).

According to him, the fact that Pristina does is not implementing agreements that have been reached earlier shows that the EU is helpless.

The Army of Serbia Chief-of-Staff, general Milan Mojsilovic and the Commander of NATO Allied Joint Force (JFC) in Naples Admiral James Foggo discussed on Wednesday the current security situation in Kosovo and the participation of Serbia's army in the NATO Partnership for Peace programme, the Beta news agency reported.

Brother and sister, Nikola (17) and Marija (15) Petrovic from Gracanica died along with their grandmother on May 1, two decades ago, when NATO bombed Nis-Express bus on the Pristina-Nis highway in Luzane, Serbian media in Kosovo report. The two teens and their grandmother were on their way back from Prokuplje to Gracanica. No one was hold responsible for this crime.

The Trade Union of Journalists of Serbia (SINOS) wants 16 RTS employees killed by NATO to be included on the list of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

SINOS said in a statement that the night when NATO bombs killed 16 media workers in their workplace marked the beginning of the practice of unprovoked military attacks on media outlets in other parts of the world as well.

NATO's bombing 20 years ago of Serbian public broadcaster RTS, killing 16 employees, was a barbaric act for which there is not a single justification. Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that late on Monday during an international conference dubbed, "End of Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists," B92 reports.

Former head of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija, Nebojsa Covic told RTS he thinks there is a realistic danger of new conflicts because “Kosovo attempts to roundup its sovereignty.” According to him, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emanuel Macron want to overcome the problems in Kosovo and continue the dialogue, however that is not possible, Covic stressed.

KoSSev portal reported that following the report of Voice of America on Vesna Mikic being deposed of her function as Kosovo Deputy Minister of Justice because of her comment on NATO bombing of the-then Federal Republic Yugoslavia, while there was no reaction to the similar statement that Ivan Todosijevic, the Minister of Local Self-Governance Administration has made, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj deposed Minister Todosijevic of his function today.

According to numerous reports it is not a rare occurrence that women in Kosovo are discriminated against in many areas of social life, while the attitude of some employers or heads of the institutions toward women is different comparing to the one toward the men. One of the latest examples is a dismissal of Vesna Mikic as Deputy Minister of Justice, Voice of America reports.