The Surkis ambush was an incident that occurred on 25 October 1996 in village of Surkish.

[1] During 1995, a police officer was murdered allegedly by the KLA, and these murders and ambushed continued for the rest of the year, however the KLA only claimed responsibility for the attacks a year after in 1996.

Again in Podujevo, the KLA seriously wounded Serbian police officer Sredoje Radojević on 11 July.

[4] On 25 October 1996, Kosovo Liberation Army insurgents armed with automatic weapons ambushed 2 Yugoslav police officers in the village of Surkis, near Podujevo.

The ambush resulted in the instant death of 2 officers, Miloš Nikolić (34), a police inspector of the Pristina Precinct and Dragan Rakić from Velika Reka, a reserve police officer and a manager of a company in Podujevo.