A contingent of 12 Belgian, Luxembourgish and Dutch soldiers departed from Belgium on Tuesday to join the NATO Mission in Kosovo, KFOR, the Belgian Ministry of Defense announced.
Belgium’s last participation in KFOR was in 2010.
This deployment, scheduled from April 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, will be carried out on a six-month rotation basis. The team will be responsible for monitoring the border between Kosovo and Serbia.
Belgium will also send a military drone to Kosovo.
Otherwise, on Tuesday, a contingent of soldiers from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania were deployed to Kosovo to support the KFOR mission.
According to a KFOR announcement, the Multinational Operational Reserve Force (ORF) Battalion has taken over duties from the Turkish Operational Reserve Force Battalion, based on a rotation plan overseen by the NATO Joint Force Command in Naples.
This battalion numbers around 270 soldiers and will temporarily operate alongside the 200 Italian forces of the “Sassari” brigade, which are already present in Kosovo.