Citizens of Gracanica: It is sad what they are doing to us; we have no dinar, no freedom

Citizens of Gracanica don't hide their resentment that for the past three months, they've had to struggle to withdraw their earnings in dinars and that due to the expiration of the transitional period set by the Central Bank of Kosovo for three months, they will not be able to buy goods in dinars anymore starting this week.

Zorica Spasic told Kosovo Online reporters that everything happening was a big disgrace and that life was getting harder.

"I'm an older person, sick, my blood pressure and sugar are high, and I have to run around Serbia to get money. It is shameful and sad what they are doing to us, I don't know if the world sees it. If I were younger, I'd go out and walk, so to speak, but I'm older, I'll stay somewhere on the road. My pension is 30,000, let them take everything! I'm up for it, let the people go out and beg. What is Kurti doing, I don't know, it's shameful for him. We should all live in this environment like we used to. My family and I lived in the village of Rujce in Lipljan, we lived great. Why shouldn't it be like that now? Why are we tearing each other apart, we have children... Forget about the dinar, let's live, it's already hard and expensive. And they don't even give the little pension properly. Shame on the world. Push us into a corner, shoot us if you want, there is nowhere else to go," Spasic passionately expresses.

Her fellow citizen says that people are literally struggling, every euro is scrutinized, and no one accepts two-euro coins.

"At least the dinar is real money. We have to go to Kursumlija to withdraw money and then change it there, which is all extra work we have to do. Why do they need this? Just so Kurti can feel better, nothing else, while the people suffer every day. The Quint has already approved this, and what can you expect, nothing better. They can play with the people until tomorrow, and we will suffer for both the dinar, the freedom we don't have, and human rights. Everything is threatened, everything has been taken from us, life is hard," this Gracanica resident is disappointed.

Another citizen says that after the expiration of the transitional period for abolishing the dinar, things can only get harder.

"It's chaos, we have used our currency for so many years, and suddenly it's gone. What will happen, we'll see, but it is certain that it will be even harder," he says.

When asked if he expects a solution, he ironically replies, "The way things are going, there won't be any of us left here."