The Kosovo War of 1999 completely disrupted both the official university and its shadow counterpart. After issuing of the Resolution 1244 and coming of Kosovo Force (KFOR) most of the staff and students have fled from Kosovo in early June 1999;[1][better source needed] by August 1999, only two months after the war's end, the Serbian population of Pristina had fallen from 40,000 to under 1,000.[19]