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Recent X-ray observations of the supernova remnant IC443 interacting withmolecular clouds have shown the presence of a new population of hard X-raysources related to the remnant itself, which has been interpreted in terms offast ejecta fragment propagating inside the dense environment. Prompted bythese studies, we have obtained a deep {\sl XMM-Newton} observation of thesupernova remnant (SNR) Kes 69, which also shows signs of shock-cloudinteraction. We report on the detection of 18 hard X-ray sources in the fieldof Kes 69, a significant excess of the expected galactic source population inthe field, spatially correlated with CO emission from the cloud in the remnantenvironment. The spectra of 3 of the 18 sources can be described as hard powerlaws with photon index <2 plus line emission associated to K-shell transitions.We discuss the two most promising scenarios for the interpretation of thesources, namely fast ejecta fragments (as in IC443) and cataclysmic variables.While most of the observational evidences are consistent with the formerinterpretation, we cannot rule out the latter.

A population of isolated hard X-ray sources near the supernova remnant Kes 69