British Ministry of Defense has dispatched additional troops to Kosovo in fear that the self-proclaimed independent state will quickly slide into ethnic cleansing.

The departure of the 1st Bn Welsh Guards to Kosovo provides additional 1,000 British soldiers to the region in time when Britain is contending with a severe shortage of military personnel. British Army is currently 3,800 men under strength with every infantry battalion undermanned while one in 14 serving soldiers is not fit for active service.

Last night, some British MPs have called the deployment of troops to Kosovo as  "irresponsible" and "demented", accusing the Ministry of Defense of being "bankrupt".

"We are working with our international partners in the European Union and the United Nations to bring the Kosovo status process rapidly to completion," a spokesman for the British Foreign Office stated and 

The Foreign Office also noted that Britain will make available additional 600 personnel from 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, currently on the standby, for the Kosovo mission.

Kosovo is a Serbian province whose ethnic Albanian separatist are claiming is their own independent country. Since 1999, the separatists have initiated pogroms and have ethnically cleansed the province of Serbs.