Five men ‘linked to Wagner Group’ arrested after protest over Kosovo

Five men ‘linked to Wagner Group’ arrested after protest over Kosovo
Pro-Russian demonstrators call for Serbia to reject the recognition of Kosovo as an independent country (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia’s police have arrested five men on suspicion of calling for the violent overthrow of the Balkan country’s president during a protest a day earlier, and of arms possession.

The arrested men, some with alleged links to Russia’s private military Wagner Group, took part in a protest on Wednesday evening of far-right, pro-Russian groups demanding that the populist president, Aleksandar Vucic, rejects a Western plan on normalising ties with Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province.

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