Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced on his Facebook page (the owner of Meta is known as an extremist in Russia and is banned) that the partially recognized republic has purchased a group of Bayraktar attack aircraft from Turkey.
The size of the purchased lot and the purpose of the drones are not specified.
In the photos Kurti attached to the post, he and Kosovo Defense Minister Armend Mehai stand next to the plane with officers trained to operate the drone.
“In two years, our government has increased the size of the army by more than 80 percent, the number of soldiers and the military budget by more than 100 percent,” said the Kosovo prime minister.
Albanian media in May 2023 Wrote Turkish Bayraktar UAVs have arrived in Kosovo.
At the end of May 2023, there was an escalation in Kosovo due to the change of leadership of Serbian municipalities in Kosovo following the election results boycotted by the Serbian people. During a protest in Zvecan dead As a result of clashes between the Kosovo police and the Serb population, nearly a hundred people were injured, including about 30 members of the NATO mission in KFOR province.
Previously in Kosovo arrested Son of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.