Kosovar Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla has alleged in response to an attack on a police unit that "illegal Serbian groups are making efforts to disrupt the work of the Kosovo authorities," and in a separate incident announced that a Russian journalist had been arrested on suspicion of spying.
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PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's interior minister said on Saturday it has arrested a Russian journalist at the border on suspicion that she could be a spy, and security authorities were searching "for her intentions."The country's interior minister Xhelal Svecla named the journalist as Daria Aslamova."Many countries have proven that she was engaged in espionage for Russian military intelligence and that she pretended to be a journalist," Svecla said in press statement.Reuters could not verify Svecla's accusations.