saying the incident and the accusations by Pristina were "an attempt at a large and ferocious hybrid attack" on Serbia itself. Belgrade's Kosovo office said the strike gave the government in Pristina an excuse to crack down on ethnic Serbs in Kosovo.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday slammed a so-called "hybrid attack" targeting Belgrade after a blast hit infrastructure in Kosovo, as he rejected accusations by the Pristina government that Serbia was responsible for the explosion.