The KFOR-18 contingent consists of 25 soldiers from the Volunteer Army and five from the conscript military service.
KFOR-18 will replace KFOR-17 in mid-April and will serve in the NATO-led operation Joint Guardian for six months with the joint Polish-Ukrainian battalion POLUKRBAT. The Lithuanianunit will work at the KFOR control post on the Kosovo border with Macedonia, patrolling, providing rapid response and other tasks.
Lithuanian troops have been serving in international mission in Kosovo
since 1999.
Recently, Kosovo's border with Serbia witnessed violent outbreaks of Serbian radicals opposing the independence of the former Serbian province. Casualties among NATO peacekeeping forces were reported.
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