A man pulls a cart as Kosovan Police patrol guards the central Mitrovica Bridge over the Ibar River as tensions continue between Kosovo and Serbia on Wednesday, Dec 28, 2022. (VX Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti)
This is the seventeenth consecutive day since masked men in the troubled northern region of Mitrovica, Kosovo, have persistently erected roadblocks, barricading local ethnic-Serb minority who often voice their disagreement with what they claim to be "Serbs that are not native to Kosovo."