A group of 150 Polish soldiers from the third Air Defense Regiment left Warsaw on Thursday for Kosovo, where they will serve in KFOR, the NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
A total of 300 Polish troops will leave for Kosovo as the 18th Polish KFOR tour of duty. The second group will leave in late March, Polish news agency PAP reported.
The Polish contingent has been in Kosovo with NATO forces for nine years. The Polish-Ukrainian KFOR battalion is responsible for stability in the southern part of Kosovo.
KFOR forces are composed of 16,000 soldiers from 36 countries.
Kosovo, a former Serbian province which had been under UN administration since 1999, proclaimed independence unilaterally on Feb. 17. The Polish government recognized its statehood on Feb. 26.
Source:Xinhua
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