KFOR multinational troops deployed in the north of Kosovo and Metohija will carry out a regular exercise titled 'Strong Gates' on Thursday and Friday.

The two-day manoeuvres will be realized in cooperation with EULEX and the Kosovo Police Service, KFOR released in a statement.

The exercise is aimed at providing a joint training of the soldiers from the Multi-National Task Force North and their fellow mates that are part of the Operational Reserve Force

"The troops will get familiar with the terrain and all defense procedures at border crossings of Brnjak and Jarinje," said the NATO statement.

The two administrative line checkpoints with central Serbia are located near Leposavic and Zubin Potok in the Serb-dominated north of the province.

One of the goals of the two-day exercise is to establish cooperation among KFOR, EULEX and the KPS, the statement concluded.

However, the Serb National Council said that goal of the exercise is for KFOR and EULEX "to show that Serbia has definitively lost Kosovo and that a NATO state had been formed on Serbian soil".