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Clockwise from top left: The central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš; soldiers of the Croatian Army preparing to destroy a Serb tank; A destroyed Yugoslav People's Army tank
[94] [104] [105] Between 82 and 88 Croatian civilians were killed in the siege, [75] as were 194 Croatian military personnel. [106] Ninety-four Croatian soldiers were killed between October and December 1991. [107] A total of 417 were killed in all military operations around Dubrovnik by the end of October 1992. [108] The JNA suffered 165 ...
There were around 700 former JNA officers, mostly from Serbia and Montenegro, that fought on the Yugoslav side. [6]A small number of Russian volunteers, from Russia and other states of the former USSR, fought for the armed forces of Yugoslavia or the Republic of Serbian Krajina, as well as for Serbian paramilitary groups, such as the Serbian Volunteer Guard, led by Arkan.
Operation Medak Pocket (Serbo-Croatian: Operacija Medački džep, Операција Медачки џеп), officially called by Croatians Operation Pocket-93 (Operacija Džep-93) was a military operation undertaken by the Croatian Army between 9 – 17 September 1993, in which a salient reaching the south suburbs of Gospić, in the south-central Lika region of Croatia then under the control ...
End of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Western Front) Soviet Union occupies Eastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany; SR Croatia becomes a federal constituent of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
The Serb Volunteer Guard [a] was an elite Serbian volunteer paramilitary unit founded and led by Željko Ražnatović (better known as "Arkan"). It was recognized for its superior bearing and discipline, fighting in the Croatian War and the Bosnian War during the Yugoslav Wars. [4]
The Belgrade offensive or the Belgrade strategic offensive operation (Serbo-Croatian: Beogradska operacija / Београдска операција; Russian: Белградская стратегическая наступательная операция, Belgradskaya strategicheskaya nastupatel'naya operatsiya) (15 September 1944 – 24 November 1944) [9] was a military operation during ...
On this terrible day, the good news for the defenders of Petrinja was that the Croatian army destroyed the radar system in the Sašin Greda military-missile base near Sisak, and conquered that base, which was held by JNA soldiers. [citation needed] Soon the Serbs occupied Hrvatska Dubica and all the Croatian villages around them. [citation needed]