26 years since the start of NATO attacks on Serbian targets
Today marks 26 years since the start of NATO airstrikes against military-police targets in Serbia and Montenegro.
The attacks began at 19:45, when NATO planes dropped the first bombs against strategic positions of the army of the former Yugoslavia, as the two republics of the former Yugoslav federation, Serbia and Montenegro, were called, reports KosovaPress.
The order to launch the bombing campaign was given by the President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton. He delivered the historic speech to the American people that night, announcing that he had ordered the Atlantic Alliance to launch a military operation, as the only way to end the fighting in Kosovo.
"We and the NATO Alliance have made every effort to achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Kosovo. But President Milosevic, who in the recent past caused terrible wars in Croatia and Bosnia, has decided in favor of aggression rather than peace," Clinton said.
Air attacks against Serbian and Montenegrin forces continued until June 9, when the Kumanova Agreement was reached, otherwise known as the capitulation of the criminal Milosevic, and on June 11, the enemy forces began to leave the territory of Kosovo.
This is the first military intervention of NATO since its formation, which is also known as the historical intervention.
/Kosovapress/
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