KFOR Vows Response to Russian’s Killing
From Times Wire Reports
The commander of KFOR peacekeepers in Kosovo said a Russian soldier shot to death Wednesday was the first member of the international force to die in a military-style attack, and he vowed a “robust” response.
Paratrooper Sgt. Mikhail Shuitsev was killed when his unit came under fire, said Lt. Gen. Thorstein Skiaker.
The Russian government blamed the attack on ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia’s main republic.
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