Kosovo Police announced that a hand grenade exploded in the Kosovo Post building in Zvecan, while another was detonated.
The Deputy Director of the Kosovo Police for the North Region, Veton Eljshani, told Radio Free Europe that there were no injuries, but that material damage was caused.
The Kosovo Post Office sign in Zvečan was placed on this building last week. Until May 2024, it housed the Postal Savings Bank, which operated within the Serbian system.
The same Kosovo Post sign was placed in other municipalities with a Serbian majority in northern Kosovo, in buildings where branches of the Postal Savings Bank operated.
Kosovo authorities closed this bank, the Post of Serbia, and other institutions operating within the Serbian system, arguing that they were illegal, or that they did not have a permit to operate. This was met with dissatisfaction from the local Serb community and criticism from the international community.
Last year, several explosive devices were also thrown at Kosovo institutions in municipalities in northern Kosovo, while Kosovo authorities assessed that the "criminal and terrorist attacks" were aimed at intimidation.
Kosovo's acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti condemned the attack on the Kosovo Post facility in Zvečan, saying it had "elements of a terrorist attack".
"This act of violence represents an attempt to undermine security and hinder the integration of citizens into the legal and institutional system of the Republic of Kosovo," he wrote on the social network Facebook.
He expressed concern that individuals like Milan Radoičić, "known for their connections with criminal and terrorist groups", are at large, and that this is "encouraging criminals and extremists".
Radoičić, the former vice-president of the Serbian List, claimed responsibility for the armed attack in Banjska in northern Kosovo in September 2023, when a Kosovo police officer was killed. Milan Radoičić is believed to be at large in Serbia. He and about 40 other people have been indicted in Kosovo, while the Banjska attack is also being investigated by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade.
"Kosovo remains committed to regional peace and stability, but we will not allow any attempt to challenge our constitutional order and the security of our citizens," Kurti wrote, among other things.
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