Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Kosovo Serbs need to be liberated from Serbia’s tutelage (RFE)
• Elshani: Our goal was not to kill 30 persons, but to free the territory (Koha)
• Svecla says “one of those killed was Vulin’s bodyguard in 2013” (media)
• Stano: EU does not rush into decisions based on a video (Albanian Post)
• Rasic: There was information three months ago about military camp in Raska (media)
• Abdixhiku calls for “national unity when faced with Serbia” (media)
• Haradinaj: The threat is present, we cannot work separately (Nacionale)

Serbian Language Media:

• Regarding requests for measures against Serbia: EU will wait for the investigation before deciding (KiM radio, FoNet)
• Vucevic: Current communication with KFOR at the lowest, technical level (Danas, RTS)
• Office for KiM: The breaking of windows in Lipljan is an echo of the violence in the north of Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica sever, Tanjug)
• Kurti: Serbs need to be liberated (N1)
• Prosecution frees four Banjska incident suspects (N1)
• Entry to Banjska allowed (KiM Radio, Kosovo Online)
• Mijacic: After Banjska, the most important thing to stabilize the north, with international actors on the move (Kosov Online)
• SOC: We pray for the victims of Serbs and Albanians, we send our condolences, means not chosen for the disappearance of the people and the Church from Kosovo (KoSSev)

International:

• US envoy says Kosovo attack ‘coordinated and sophisticated’ (politico.eu)

Albanian Language Media:

• Svecla publishes video claiming to show Radoicic during attack in north (RFE)
• Svecla: Armed group planned to go south to the Iber River, “declare autonomy” (media)
• Rohde: Urgent need to continue dialogue talks, implementation of Ohrid deal (media)
• UK MP Kearns reacts to latest developments in north of Kosovo (media)
• Albanian PM Rama says “Belgrade blowing the fire of an armed conflict” (media)
• Kosovo Police deliver 100 food packages to citizens of Banjska (Koha)
• Abazovic: Situation in north of Kosovo can turn into wider conflict (Albanian Post)
• Dugolli: International community should take urgent steps against Serbia (media)
• Maliqi: KFOR, NATO negotiated with Belgrade to stop armed conflict in north (media)
• Former KSF commander: Operation to continue, there are more arms warehouses (KTV)
• Tahiri: Borrell, Lajcak must resign; Serbia must be suspended from integration (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano: In the afternoon, a new meeting of EU ambassadors will be held on the situation in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Vucic requests KFOR to take over security in the north of Kosovo (NMagazin, media)
• Hill: Further steps are being considered after the events in Banjska (Beta, KiM radio)
• Kosovo minister says Serbian List’s Radoicic was in Banjska (N1, KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio)
• Tomorrow in Serbia Mourning Day due to the events in Kosovo (media)
• Serbian List: Three-day mourning in Serbian communities in Kosovo (Danas)
• Milicevic: The Serbian List has failed, less and less control and influence on the Serbs from the north (N1)
• Kontakt plus journalist, Ana Marija Ivkovic: The atmosphere in the north of Kosovo is worse (Insajder)
• Vorgucic: To me it is unbelievable that K-Serbs are behind this action (Insajder)
• Brnabic met with Vucic: Discussion on measures to be taken (Beta, N1)
• A vehicle set on fire in Leposavic last night (KoSSev)

International:

• State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller Addresses Kosovo Prime Minister Kurti’s Accusations, Violent Clashes, And Excessive Force Concerns (thepavlovictoday.com)
• Svecla: What we want to do is make sure everyone feels safe (BBC Newsnight)

Albanian Language Media:

• Body of another dead attacker found in Banjska (Koha)
• Blinken: Violent attacks on Kosovo Police near Banjska Monastery, unacceptable (media)
• “Weapons seized at Banjska Monastery will be presented today” (TeVe1)
• Another vehicle with weapons found in the north (Koha)
• Crisis in Banjska – Police find new evidence, including drone (Kallxo)
• Kurti: Bunjaku was killed by a professionally trained group supported by Serbia (media)
• Osmani awards slain police officer with “Hero of Kosovo” order (media)
• Sarrazin condemns “criminal and terrorist” attack on Kosovo Police (Albanian Post)
• Lajcak to meet French, German, Italian representatives today, Escobar will attend (RFE)
• “Arms seized in the north; terror group tried to camouflage as KFOR” (Indeksonline)
• Rohde calls on Serbian List to react against killing of Kosovo police officer (media)
• Vela: Vucic resorted to unprecedented aggression; he will fail (media)
• Lajcak: Cowardly acts of violence, against principles of peace and cooperation (media)
• Bogdanovic, Biserko comment on yesterday’s developments in north (Nacionale)
• Kanin: Kosovo is victim of attacks in north; Association favours Serbia (media)
• Kupchan: The attack in Kosovo was not spontaneous (Radio Free Europe)
• Maliqi: “Serb terrorists” wanted to frame massacre and blame Albanians (Dukagjini)
• Taravari: Kosovo can’t be another Ukraine, because it would mean World War III (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano: A very dangerous situation happened in Kosovo, urgent de-escalation needed (Kosovo Online)
• Visoki Decani monastery warns against misinformation (KiM radio, N1)
• Vucic meets Bostan-Kharchenko, tells him ethnic cleansing is ongoing in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Sarrazin: We must have a successful dialogue (KiM radio)
• Brussels: Lajcak and Escobar with diplomats from France, Germany, and Italy (KiM radio, Tanjug)
• Elshani: Police are looking for uniformed attackers (KiM radio)
• Jarinje and Brnjak still closed for entry in Kosovo (N1)
• Believers still in Banjska monastery, citizens of North Macedonia went home (Kim Radio, Beta, N1)
• BETA: Injured near Banjska transferred to hospital in Novi Pazar (N1, nova.rs, KiM Radio, NMagazin)
• Attacker from Banjska underwent surgery in Pristina (N1)
• Due to incompetence of Serbian regime, Kosovo Serbs at mercy of Kurti, Freedom and Justice Party said (Beta, N1, KiM radio)
• Dacic: Kurti wants war (FoNet, Danas)
• Serbian Minister says events in northern Kosovo planned, conflict suits Kurti only (Kosovo Online, TV Pink)
• Regional media: "The state of war", "terrorists" and "the spark that could ignite the region" (NMagazin, N1)
• Serbian citizen arrested in Montenegro suspected of war crimes in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, RTCG, N1)
• Post of Serbia: Post office in Banjska intruded, property damaged (RTS)

Opinion:

• Palokaj: “Terrorism cannot be a topic of the dialogue” (Koha)

International:

• Siege of Serb monastery in Kosovo ends after militants withdraw (Financial Times)
• Why Kosovo’s standoff with Serbs continues 15 years after statehood (Al Jazeera)
• Telekom Srbija wins Kosovo appeal (broadbendtvnews.com)

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani: Women in Kosovo always at forefront of peace and security processes (media)
• Gervalla reacts to Vucic: Kosovo’s independence doesn’t violate UN charter (media)
• Escobar: I don’t see any impartiality from Lajcak (Radio Free Europe)
• Osmani meets U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer (media)
• Explosion in Mitrovica North (Koha)
• Svecla: Grenade throwing, revolt to arrest of Serbs suspected of war crimes (RFE)
• Hate slogans in Zvecan; Police: We’re investigating, suspects unknown (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• KFOR: Kosovo police informed us about arrest of three Serbs a day later (Kosovo Online, RTS)
• Vucic meets Chinese Vice-President on UN GA sidelines (BETA, N1)
• Dacic in New York: We respect principle of territorial integrity, but we are victim of this principle violations (RTS)
• Jeremic on Vucic’s speech at UN GA (N1, BETA)
• Explosive devices thrown at Serbian families’ yards in Ranilug municipality (RTS)
• Office for KiM on Ranilug: The goal is ethnic cleansing of Serbs; KP: Investigation ongoing (KiM radio, RTV Puls)
• Detonation in Bosniak mahala, suspected it was a shock bomb (KiM radio, KoSSev)
• Serbia’s weapons exports to exceed $ 1.6 bn (BETA, N1)

Opinion:

• Latifi suggests referendum on Association of Serb-majority municipalities (Nacionale)
• Janjic: Deep security crisis in northern Kosovo (KiM radio, Beta, Demostat)
• Enlargement: The EU’s imperative (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 21, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Escobar wants Kosovo government to have “new approach” to dialogue (media)
• Osmani meets Biden in New York; “alliance of freedom, eternal alliance” (media)
• Opposition, ruling party MPs clash over inquiry committee for state reserves (Telegrafi)
• Stano on arrests of Serbs for war crimes: We’re monitoring situation (Gazeta Express)
• Begaj: We’re together with Kosovo at UN; Kurti-Rama relations are very good (media)
• “Pressure against Serbs in north comes directly from BIA and Vucic” (Kosovapress)
• German deputy ambassador: EU is not complete without Western Balkans (EO)
• Haradinaj: Kosovo Army has capacities to protect peace with NATO anywhere (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• Escobar: Kosovo should change "take it or leave it" approach, Milatovic agrees with American position on government (VoA)
• Vucic informed Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan about violence against Serbs in Kosovo (NMagazin, Beta)
• Rada Trajkovic: Arrest of Serbs deliberate destabilisation, Kurti wanted to be Zelensky, but I'm afraid he went the way of Aliyev (KoSSev)
• Miletic resigned from position of adviser in Kosovo PM’s cabinet (KiM Radio, KoSSev)
• Radakovic: Every autumn in north is "hot", I am afraid of mass arrests (Kosovo Online)
• Hill: US does not have many details about yesterday's arrests of Serbs in Kosovo (KiM Radio, Tanjug, RTV)
• Stano: EU closely monitors situation in northern Kosovo (RTS, Tanjug, Radio KIM)
• FM Dacic holds bilateral meetings on sidelines of UNGA (N1, BETA)

International:

• Kosovo and Taiwan Eye an Alliance of Outsiders (Foreign Policy)
• Fact-Check: Kosovo Is Attracting More FDI, But Not Where It’s Needed (BIRN)
• Romania FA sanctioned over 'Serbia' chants in Kosovo match (Reuters)