Some Kosovo Serbs opposed to secession boycotted the move by refusing to follow orders from the central government in Pristina and attempted to seize infrastructure and border posts in Serb-populated regions.

In the eastern Gjilan region around 100 Serb officers were suspended from the Kosovo Police Service.

[12] UN peacekeepers stationed at the checkpoints were forced to abandon the posts until they were reopened the following day.

[13][14] Attacks at the Mutivoda crossing point on Monday February 25, 2008 by 100 Serbs injured 19 members of the Kosovo Police Service and forced the post to be closed until the next day.

[15] The day after Kosovo's declaration of independence two bombs in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica damaged several UN vehicles, though there were no injuries.

[12] After several attacks in northern Kosovska Mitrovica an advance team of the EU administrative force withdrew over security concerns.

[18] On March 14, 2008, after staging rallies for several weeks that prevented ethnic Albanian court employees from entering a UN courthouse in the northern part of Mitrovica, hundreds of Kosovo Serbs broke into the building in the Serb-dominated part of the city, forcing UN police to retreat.

[19] UN officials' negotiations with the Serbs to end the occupation were unsuccessful, and on March 17 UN police with the assistance of NATO-led KFOR forces entered the courthouse in a pre-dawn raid.

Among the wounded international troops were 27 Polish and 14 Ukrainian police officers and 20 French soldiers.