The Disinformation War on Kosovo

If the weapons buried in Vallaq are the physical embodiment of Serbia’s clandestine war on Kosovo’s sovereignty, then Berat Buzhala’s rhetoric is its ideological camouflage.

PRISHTINA — In the early hours of Sunday, June 22, 2025, Kosovo’s Ministry of Internal Affairs executed a counter-terror operation that unearthed a hidden weapons cache in Vallaq, a village in the tense Zveçan municipality. The raid, coordinated between the Kosovo Police, the Intelligence Agency (AKI), the State Prosecutor’s Office, and monitored by NATO's KFOR and EULEX, revealed an arsenal that included anti-tank rocket-propelled grenades, automatic rifles, belt-fed machine guns, grenades, and military-grade communication equipment enough, as Minister Xhelal Sveçla said¹, to arm a full terrorist unit.

The weapons were discovered on property linked to Kosovar Serb politician Aleksandar Arsenijevic, known locally as “Aco Ludi,” long portrayed as a controversial unconfirmed representative of the Serb minority in Kosovo. The Frontliner Magazine and The Gunpowder Chronicles had previously warned, in a 2024 exposé², of Arsenijevic’s ties to extremist networks and his affiliations with fugitive Danijel Djukic and Milan Radoicic, masterminds of the 2023 Banjska attacks³. Kosovo’s authorities have now declared the raid as material proof of what years of investigative reporting had uncovered: Arsenijevic is not a maverick politician, but a node in a coordinated destabilisation campaign orchestrated by Belgrade and aligned with Russia's hybrid warfare playbook⁴.

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