mo4ch:>Detained Russian member of UN mission in Kosovo released – mission | Mo4ch News
A Russian member of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) who was arrested on Tuesday during raids in the Serbian-majority north has been released, a mission spokesperson has confirmed.“One UNMIK employee, a citizen of the Russian Federation, was released,” mission spokeswoman Sanam Dolatshahi said in a brief statement to Russian news agency Interfax. Mikhail Krasnoshchekov was reportedly injured during the raid and needed to be hospitalized: There is no update yet on his condition or that of a second UN mission employee who was also detained.The president of the self-proclaimed territory of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, claimed that the detained mission member had “tried to prevent a police action.”Also on rt.comRussian member of UN mission detained, reportedly injured in Kosovo raidsThe Russian diplomat should theoretically have been protected from detention by his UN employee immunity. After learning of the arrest, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova decried the “ou…