Ranilug incident (1999)

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The Ranilug incident was a confrontation which occurred on 6 September 1999 between Russian Kosovo Force (KFOR) peacekeepers and Serbian gunmen who had attacked a vehicle with Albanian civilians, near the village of Ranilug.

Russian troops shot and killed three Serbian gunmen. One of the occupants in the vehicle was also killed by the gunmen. At the time, it was the bloodiest incident since the entry of KFOR into Kosovo following the end of the Kosovo War.