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STORY: Kosovo indicted 45 suspects on terrorism charges on Wednesday (September 11).

The charges stem from a brazen attack almost a year ago when around 80 Serb gunmen stormed a north Kosovo village and battled police in a shootout...

and barricaded themselves in a Serbian Orthodox monastery, before the survivors fled on foot back to Serbia.

The shootout left four people dead - including a Kosovo police officer.

It marked the most violent incident in Kosovo since the republic declared independence from Serbia in 2008, and aggravated tensions between Pristina and Belgrade.

Blerim Isufaj, the chief prosecutor of the Special Prosecution of Kosovo, told a press conference that the leader of the group, Milan Radoicic is among the accused.

The man highlighted by Kosovo police on screen is said to be that suspect - but Reuters cannot independently verify his identity.

Radoicic, a former top Kosovo Serb politician who lives in Serbia, has publicly admitted taking part in the gunbattle.

All the suspects, some of whom are Kosovo citizens, are believed to be in Serbia.

That makes it unlikely they will be handed to Kosovo authorities, as Belgrade doesn't recognize Kosovo's independence and still considers the republic part of its own territory.

Kosovo blames Serbia for the attack, a charge Belgrade denies.