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mo4ch:>Russian member of UN mission detained, reportedly injured in Kosovo raids | Mo4ch News

Moscow is demanding the release of a Russian citizen who was detained and possibly injured during a Kosovan police incursion into the ethnic Serb-majority northern areas of the breakaway region.Mikhail Krasnoshchekov, a Russian national and member of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) was among those detained during the early Tuesday raids by Kosovan special police forces (ROSU) in the region's northern areas, populated mostly by ethnic Serbs.The man was injured in the operation and had to be hospitalized, according to a Mitrovica hospital medic cited by TASS.The Russian embassy in Belgrade has demanded Krasnoshchekov's immediate release.We are outraged by the provocation against the Russian citizen, UNMIK member Mikhail Krasnoshchekov. We demand that the Russian be released immediately and all those responsible be held to account.“The detention was carried out despite the fact that the Russian citizen has a UN employee's immunity,” the Rus…