The Russian paramilitary Wagner members invited ‘patriots from Serbia, Montenegro and Republika Srpska’: Let’s go to liberate Jarinje

“At this moment, let’s see how many people are ready to go to Jarinje and try to free that passage,” Damnjan Knežević said in an audio message.

Knežević stayed at the Wagner Center in Russia at the end of November.

In November of this year, Serb Damnjan Knežević stayed at the Wagner Center in Russia.

“It is an honor for me to be here,” says Knežević in a video released on November 29 on the occasion of his visit to the Wagner Center in Russia.

Damnjan Knežević is one of the leaders of the right-wing organization People’s Patrol from Serbia. Zoran Lekić and Aleksandar Lisov, who was introduced at the beginning of December as the ideologist and leader of the PMC Wagner Center – ANO Russian-Serbian Cultural and Information Center of Friendship and Cooperation Orly in Belgrade, also appear in the video from the Wagner Center.

Less than a month after his visit to the Wagner Center, Damnjan Knežević called on the Serbs to start liberating Jarinje.

“At this moment, let’s see how many people are ready to go to Jarinje and try to free that passage”, Knežević said in an audio message published by Agim Musliu, director of the Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies “OCTOPUS” from Kosovo.

Here is the appeal of #Serb #Damnjan #Knezevic, (affiliated with #Russia) who talks about the "liberation" of Jarinja…
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"At this moment, let's see how many people are ready to go to Jarinje and try to liberate that passage".
Taken with OSINT tools pic.twitter.com/3l7Iq7Mlzb

— Agim Musliu (@agim_musliu) December 18, 2022

Musliu tells Istraga.ba that the situation in the north of Kosovo is very difficult, while research associate Gynen Venhari says that certain groups connected to the Russian Federation could organize the burning of “border crossings” in Kosovo.

Istraga.ba is in possession of a video showing several people with automatic weapons. According to our sources, the video was taken in the north of Kosovo.

Na barikadama na sjeveru Kosova nalaze se osobe naoružane automatskim oružjem. Na snimku koji je u posjedu @IstragaB mogu se vidjeti i paketi sa oznakama Rusko-srpskog humanitarnog centra iz Niša pic.twitter.com/UBVUtgikcN

— Istraga.ba (@IstragaB) December 18, 2022

“Not far from the barricades where the civilians are, there are checkpoints where there are armed persons ready to shoot at any moment,” said the source of the Investigation for the North of Kosovo.

We remind you that on December 9 of this year in the north of Kosovo, unknown persons, shooting from an automatic weapon, wounded a member of the Kosovo police. Seven days ago, unknown persons also threw a shock bomb at a EULEX vehicle that was patrolling in the north of Kosovo. Bigger incidents are expected now. The takeover of the Jarinje crossing has been announced for today (Sunday, December 18).

“Serbian patriots from Serbia, Montenegro and Republika Srpska are inviting you to a rally in Jarinje. Let’s not allow brothers and sisters to remain alone in the environment#, reads the invitation published on social networks of right-wing organizations from Serbia.

Damnjan Knežević is, as we said, one of the organizers. As we have already stated, he stayed at the Wagner Center in Russia at the end of November, and after his visit, information was published that the Wagner Center would also be opened in Belgrade.

“We are in a hurry to introduce you to the new resident of the PMC Wagner Center – ANO Russian-Serbian Cultural and Information Center of Friendship and Cooperation Orly.” The ideologue and leader of the Center is Aleksander Lisov”, it was announced at the time on the Telegram platform.

Since 2017, Lisov has been banned from entering Kosovo. /The Geopost/