Russia backs Serbia's deployment of troops on Kosovo border while Germany says it is 'unacceptable'

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but Belgrade has refused to recognise it and encouraged Kosovo's 120,000 ethnic Serbs to defy Pristina's authority with support from Russia

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