The Macedonian security forces briefly clashed with an armed group guarding bunkers and weapon caches on the Macedonia-Kosovo border.

The Macedonian police continued to search the area and discovered a large quantity of weapons including 20 missiles, three mortars, three field guns, TNT explosives, hand grenades and anti-tank mines, also uncovered were emblems of uniforms of the former NLA.

According to the Macedonian interior minister Gordana Jankuloska, the group was planning large military operations to destabilize Macedonia and the wider Balkan region.

[2] Two weeks after the bunker raid, the Macedonian police engaged in a shootout with an armed group which was smuggling weapons near the Kosovo border.

[5] According to Alfa TV, the perpetrators of the 2015 Kumanovo clashes and attack at Gošince were men who were previously involved with the incidents with the weapon caches.