Today marks 25 years since the start of NATO’s air strikes against military and police targets in Serbia and Montenegro.
The attacks began at 19:45 when NATO planes dropped the first bombs on the strategic positions of the army of the former Yugoslavia, as the two republics of the former Yugoslav federation, Serbia and Montenegro, were known.
The order to start the bombing campaign was given by the President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton. That night, he delivered a historic speech to the American people, announcing that he had ordered the Atlantic Alliance to start the military operation as the only possibility to end the fighting in Kosovo.
“We and the NATO Alliance have made every effort to reach a peaceful solution to the conflict in Kosovo. But President Milosevic, who in the recent past caused terrible wars in Croatia and Bosnia, has opted for aggression instead of peace,” President Clinton said.
The air strikes against Serbian and Montenegrin forces continued until June 9, when the Kumanovo Agreement was reached, which is also known as the capitulation of the criminal Milosevic, and on June 11, the enemy forces began to withdraw from the territory of Kosovo.
This is NATO’s first military intervention since its formation, known as the historic intervention.
Source: Botasot.net
