A protest walk “One in Five Million” is announced to take place on Saturday, 2 February in Mitrovica North. According to the organizers it aims to show that inhabitants of this town, but also from other areas in Kosovo solidarize with the people protesting in major cities across Serbia for weeks and their requests, Radio KIM reports.

The gathering place is at Tzar Lazar Monument in the center of Mitrovica North, while the walk would end on the spot of Oliver Ivanovic murder, where the citizens would light candles.

Serbs from Mitrovica North will not accept the violent integration with Mitrovica South, Srpska Lista Deputy Chair, Igor Simic said, commenting on an initiative to unite the town, Tanjug news agency reported.

“Serbs from northern part of Mitrovica will not accept violent integration into any system, since nobody wants to replace something that is good and has quality with something that does not function,” Simic told TV Pink.

Serbs in the north of Kosovo believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not take place and asses that such a thing could seriously jeopardize their survival, reports Mitrovica North based Kontakt plus radio.

Ruzica Simic from NGO Women's Right believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not happen.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told TV Pink in Davos, on the occasion of the request of Albanian councillors to unite the northern and southern parts of Mitrovica and the support given by Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, that this will not happen.

Vucic told Belgrade based TV Pink that he does not understand "neither what Thaci does, nor Ramush Haradinaj."

President of Serbian List Goran Rakic issued a press release, as a response to the statement of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci about the unification of Mitrovica, who said that it was a “unstoppable process”.

Kontakt plus radio based in Mitrovica North covered the full statement.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric commenting on a statement of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on “unification of Mitrovica” said Thaci should not play games with Serbia and should not threaten Serbs, RTS reports. At the same time, Djuric urged the EU to react before it is too late.

“Hashim Thaci speaks about annexation of Mitrovica North, and I want to convey a message to him, not to play games with Serbia and threaten Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, not to act irresponsibly, since such statements are call for destabilization,” Djuric said.

Members of the advocacy platform Empirika - civil society organizations, issued a statement on the anniversary of the murder of CI SDP, Oliver Ivanovic, reports Kontakt plus radio.

A mural of the murdered Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic has been painted on a wall in Belgrade, not far from the city’s main police station, TV N1 reports.

An unidentified artist painted a portrait of Ivanovic and wrote inscription “You Can’t Live in an Atmosphere of Fear”.

The mural was painted just prior to the first anniversary of the murder of Ivanovic. He was gunned down in front of his party offices in Mitrovica North on 16 January 2018.

A protest gathering has been scheduled to take place tomorrow in central Belgrade to mark the anniversary.

Terraces and businesses along the pedestrian zone in northern part of Mitrovica were decorated with Serbian flags on Thursday evening, reports Belgrade based news agency Tanjug. This morning Tanjug correspondent from Mitrovica reports on KFOR vehicles deployment on the Ibar bridge.

Clinic and Health Centre in Mitrovica North received yesterday humanitarian aid related to medical material, Director of the Centre, Milan Ivanovic told Radio kontakt plus.

“After the problems to get medicaments, due to hampering acts by Pristina, thus disabling an adequate medical treatment of our patients, yesterday on 12 December, necessary medical material from our state of Serbia arrived and it was received as humanitarian aid,” Ivanovic said, underlining that “taxes are not paid for the humanitarian deliveries.”