An stray dog sits on the main bridge as the EU (EULEX) and Kosovan Police patrol the central Mitrovica Bridge over the Ibar River, Mitrovica, Kosovo, 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."