Вери најс, вери најс. Али има ли нешто за 2001? За Ми24 и Су25. Ги тргнале противтенковските проектили а? Очиглендо е дека овие модернизираните се наменети за против терористички дејства и против герилски акции, и дека не се очекува судир со противник наоружан со тенкови.
Мислам дека 24-ките Можат да користат и Израелски АТ ракети СТАР.
Инаку МИ-17 дефинитивно се за антитерористички.
Инаку мое мислење за 78 дневното бомбардирање е АПСУРД-употреба на авијација,без копнени единици...
Имено,истата ја оправдувам првите две недели...белким србите ќе попуштеа но понатаму....се знае.
Понатаму..
April 2: As thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees continued to flee Kosovo, NATO cruise missiles struck government buildings in downtown Belgrade.
• As oil exports resumed through Iraq’s main terminal following repairs to a central communications station destroyed by U.S. and British airstrikes, U.S. and British warplanes attacked targets in southern Iraq in the first such strikes since March 16.
April 3: As its missiles struck downtown Belgrade for a second straight day, NATO announced plans to send 6,000 to 8,000 troops to Albania to help the nearly 200,000 Kosovar refugees there.
April 5: Errant NATO missiles struck two residential neighborhoods in the Serbian mining city of Aleksinac, killing some 10 civilians.
April 6: The U.S. and its NATO allies rejected President Milosevic’s declaration of an Orthodox Easter cease-fire and intensified its bombing of Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, ethnic Albanians continued to flee their burning houses in Kosovo, and the U.S. approached Russia to act as a go-between with Milosevic.
April 7: NATO warplanes bombed a column of 7 to 12 Yugoslav army vehicles amid reports that the government had sealed Serbia’s borders and that tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians who had been backed up in Kosovo had disappeared. Meanwhile, the State Department
April 12: Following an emergency session in Brussels during which they discussed the possibility of deploying ground troops in Kosovo, NATO foreign ministers vowed to intensify their air campaign against Yugoslavia, where NATO warplanes attacked a rail bridge south of Belgrade and struck a passenger train crossing the bridge, killing at least 10 and injuring 16 people.
April 13: As Yugoslav infantry troops crossed into northeastern Albania, seizing control of a border village for several hours before withdrawing, the U.S. and NATO prepared for a major escalation of air attacks on Yugoslavia, including the addition of some 300 warplanes and Apache helicopter gunships and the possible mobilization of 30,000 air reserve units.
April 16: The U.N. High Commission for Refugees estimated that more than 700,000 ethnic Albanians had fled Kosovo in the past year and accused Yugoslavia of trying to expel all of the province’s ethnic Albanians, who had made up 90 percent of Kosovo’s population.
• Five Serb rocket-fired cluster bombs, thought to be targeting a nearby KLA base, fell on the outskirts of Kukes, Albania, home to more than 75,000 Kosovar refugees as well as the native population of 20,000. Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced that a Yugoslav army officer captured by the Kosovo Liberation Army was in U.S. custody in the Abanian capital of Tirana.
April 19: As Kosovar refugees increasingly reported rapes and killings by Yugoslav forces, Belgrade sent thousands of army and police reinforcements into Kosovo and stepped up the use of helicopters and aircraft. Meanwhile, the Albanian government asked NATO to arm the Kosovo Liberation Army, and the Pentagon acknowledged that NATO strikes had not prevented the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.
April 20: As NATO cruise missiles struck a Belgrade building with transmitters for three private radio and TV channels, putting them off the air while the three state TV channels continued to broadcast, hundreds of elite U.S. paratroopers arrived in Tirana to guard Apache helicopters which had yet to reach the Albanian capital.
April 27: As NATO bombs struck a residential district in the southern Serbian town of Surdlica, killing at least 16 civilians, and President Clinton authorized the Pentagon to summon up to 33,102 reservists for active duty with NATO forces in Yugoslavia, NATO military commander Gen. Wesley Clark acknowledged that five weeks of massive bombing had failed to reduce the size of the Yugoslav force in Kosovo or its “cleansing” of the ethnic Albanian majority.
• In Belgrade, Goran Matic, minister without portfolio in the Milosevic government, said, “I believe that this will be the week in which the basic outline of an agreement on Kosovo can be firmed up.”
May 1, 1999: As NATO bombs destroyed a civilian bus crossing a bridge in Kosovo, killing at least 24 people and critically wounding 16 others on the 39th day of its bombing campaign, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic released three U.S. soldiers captured in Macedonia to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who had flown to Belgrade to press for the Americans’ release.
•In an embarrassing defeat for hard-liners, Iran’s liberal minister of culture, Ayatollah Mohajerani, survived a parliamentary move to impeach him.
May 2: Some 20,000 ethnic Albanians fled the area around Prizren, Kosovo’s most diverse city, in a three-day period, with Serbian forces and equipment moving in and reportedly holding young ethnic Albanian men as a shield against a possible NATO land invasion.
•As NATO acknowledged that it had accidently struck a civilian bus in an attack on a bridge near the Kosovo capital of Pristina,
NATO warplanes attacked a major hydro-electric power station west of Belgrade, plunging the Serbian capital and much of the country into darkness.
May 7: NATO warplanes
mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy (Сомнително)in Belgrade, killing three journalists, including two newlyweds, and injuring more than 20 people. Earlier in the day, NATO warplanes dropped cluster bombs on a residential neighborhood and hospital grounds in Nis, killing at least 14 civilians.
•In a setback for the U.S., NATO backed away from using force to block ships carrying oil to Yugoslavia, deciding instead to seek voluntary compliance with its embargo.
May 8: As angry crowds demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, NATO officials apologized for bombing the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, attributing the error to the misidentification of the embassy as a weapons agency.
May 11: As the U.S. rejected Russian and Chinese demands that the bombing of Yugoslavia stop, NATO virtually doubled its bombardment, after a two-day lull following its bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
May 12: NATO officials said alliance warplanes had their
“best day yet” bombing Yugoslavia,
as President Milosevic admitted the attacks were causing significant losses among military and police forces.
May 20: NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark urged that some 45,000 to 50,000 troops be amassed on Kosovo’s borders.
May 23: As NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia entered its third month, campaign commander Lt. Gen. Michael C. Short said allied warplanes were finally inflicting serious damage on Serb-led forces in Kosovo, and predicted the bombing would result in their destruction or departure from Kosovo within two months.
Meanwhile, 14,000 ethnic Albanian refugees were reported to have fled to Macedonia in the past two days.
June 1: As NATO warplanes mistakenly bombed Albania and, in an attack on “first defense lines” near Belgrade, killed Lt. Gen. Ljubisa Velickovic, Yugoslavia’s deputy chief of staff and former air force chief, U.S., Russian and EU officials meeting in Bonn reported progress toward reaching a unified position on terms for ending the 10 weeks of warfare on Yugoslavia. President Slobodan Milosevic said in a letter he was ready to withdraw troops from Kosovo and accept a “United Nations presence” there. Meanwhile, in Washington, President Bill Clinton met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss a possible ground invasion of Kosovo.
June 3: President Milosevic and the Serb parliament accepted NATO’s terms for ending its attack on Yugoslavia.
June 4: While accelerating peace preparations, NATO continued its bombing of Yugoslavia, saying it would end when Serbian troops begin withdrawing from Kosovo.
June 5: NATO officials and Yugoslav military officers met for more than five hours on the Kosovo border, but failed to agree on withdrawal terms.
June 7: As negotiations over the details of Serb withdrawal from Kosovo broke down after two days of talks, NATO said it would intensify its bombing of Yugoslavia. Meanwhile Russia refused to approve a resolution for presentation to the U.N. Security Council on the future of Kosovo and the role of a peacekeeping force.
June 8: As the U.S., NATO and Russia agreed on a Kosovo peacekeeping presence, several hundred Serb-led Yugoslav troops were believed killed in a single U.S. B-52 cluster-bomb attack near the Kosovo-Albanian border, and KLA guerrillas attacked Yugoslav forces in Kosovo and were suspected of an ambush of civilians. In Germany, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with three rival ethnic Albanian leaders, urging them to work together for a democratic Kosovo.
June 11: The first units of NATO’s KFOR force, in helicopters and military vehicles, entered Kosovo at dawn. In a surprise move, Russian troops arrived in advance of NATO troops, occupying the Pristina airport.
June 15: Serbia’s Orthodox Church called on President Milosevic to resign.
