Russia is ready to provide Serbian partners with support in defending legitimate national interests in relation to Kosovo, primarily in international structures, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a letter to Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic, reports Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

In a letter to Dacic in connection with the incursion of ROSU unit to North Mitrovica and the arrest of the director of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric, Lavrov informed Belgrade that the appropriate instructions "were sent" to Russia's permanent representatives to the UN in New York, as well as to the EU and NATO in Brussels, and the OSCE in Vienna ", reports Vecernje Novosti.

Lavrov said in a return letter to Dacic, according to the daily, that he “fully share the assessments" expressed by Dacic in the letter, he had sent to all UN members after dramatic events in northern Kosovo, reports the daily.

Russian ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Chepurin delivered the letter yesterday to Serbian FM Ivica Dacic, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier, reports Vecernje Novosti.