Ukraine says police injured in Kosovo, one serious

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Fourteen Ukrainian police were injured in clashes with Serbs in Kosovo on Monday and one was in a serious condition, Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko said.

NATO and U.N. peacekeeping forces came under fire in Serb riots in northern Kosovo where the Albanian majority declared independence a month ago.

"Fighters attacked a police station where Ukrainian police were taking part in the peacekeeping mission. Fourteen people were injured and one of them is in a serious condition," Lutsenko told journalists in southern Ukraine.

He said the police station had also come under grenade fire.

Lutsenko said the Ukrainians had been working together with the French police "of whom, about two dozen have been injured", and that a French military division was on its way to help.

Ukraine has contributed 155 police and 182 military personnel to the peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

(Editing by Richard Balmforth)