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.

On 12 June, Russian troops occupied Pristina International Airport, resulting in a stand-off with NATO forces over deployment plans, which was ultimately resolved the following month.

[3] On 13 June, German KFOR troops shot Serb militants, one of whom was killed on the spot and the other died of his injuries,[4] and on 23 June, a clash between U.S. marines from KFOR and armed Serbs in the village of Zhegër resulted in the death of one of the gunmen.

[5] On 6 September 1999, while driving through the highway near the village of Ranilug, a Russian KFOR patrol spotted three Serbian gunmen armed with rifles who had attacked a car carrying five ethnic Albanians.

[6][7] At the time, it was the bloodiest incident since the entry of KFOR into Kosovo following the end of the war.