BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was forced to cut short her tour of a waterworks facility in southern Ukraine after the spotting of a Russian drone, German media reported Sunday. Baerbock had been visiting the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv when members of the delegation were asked to promptly return to armored vehicles in Baerbock's convoy after a Russian drone was sighted flying over the facility, German news agency dpa quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesperson as saying on the sidelines of the visit. The drone had initially followed Baerbock's convoy, but then turned away. A short time after the minister's departure, air raid sirens went off in the Mykolaiv region. On Saturday evening, Baerbock had to go to a shelter in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa after another alarm triggered at 9.48 p.m. local time (1948GMT). While the alert was canceled about 20 minutes later, Baerbock remained in the shelter of her hotel together with members of her delegation and other guests, according to dpa. Sources from the German delegation said it was a missile alarm that had sounded, and that an explosion was later heard in the Odesa region, though it was unclear whether or not Ukrainian air defenses succeeded in blocking the projectile. Details on possible damage or victims remain unknown. Two Russian drone attacks left reportedly a total of four dead and several injured in Odesa city shortly before Baerbock's visit. Source: Anadolu Agency BELGRADE: In London on Monday, the territorial dispute between Kosovo - a sovereign state since 2008 - and Serbia - which calls Kosovo its own territory - broke out into full view. The dispute began at a panel organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), when Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said Kosovo is an internal part of Serbia, calling it by its pre-2008 name, "Kosovo and Metohija." But Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti shot back: "The name of my country is the Republic of Kosovo, not Kosovo and Metohija.' He added that Kosovo is recognized as an independent country by three of its four neighboring countries and 117 countries around the world, including 22 EU members and 26 NATO countries as well as Trkiye and the United States. In response Brnabic claimed that "such a statement does not correspond to reality." Before Kosovo's independence, Kosovo and Metohija was an autonomous province in southernmost Serbia. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, wit h most UN member states including the US, the UK, France, Germany, and Trkiye recognizing it as an autonomous country. Serbia, however, still considers Kosovo its territory. The last two years have seen tensions and violence flare along the countries' shared border, with Serbian troops last fall amassing at the frontier with Kosovo before pulling back. Source: Anadolu Agency
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