NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

Dacic: UNSC session on 1999 bombing of FR Yugoslavia still uncertain

BELGRADE - Serbia's caretaker FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday it was still uncertain whether a March 25 UN Security Council session that would mark 25 years since the 1999 NATO bombing of the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) would take place.

The session has been requested by Russia.

Klaus, Zeman: Kosovo a terrorist state, Prague should not have recognised it

PRAGUE - In an interview marking 25 years of their country's NATO membership, former Czech presidents Vaclav Klaus and Milos Zeman told public television broadcaster Ceska televize the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a huge mistake and that the so-called Kosovo was a terrorist state Prague should not have recognised.

The United States has deployed a squadron of fighter bombers to Poland

According to the US Air Force Command in Europe, the fighters from the 2nd Air Wing of the Marine Corps were deployed to Poland from the continental part of the United States from the Beaufort Air Base in South Carolina.
The KC-130J Hercules tanker plane also arrived in Poland, foreign media report.

Serbian Public Broadcaster Airs War Crime Convicts’ Denials

Two convicted war criminals, former Yugoslav deputy prime minister Nikola Sainovic and Yugoslav Army general Vladimir Lazarevic, appeared on Serbia's public broadcaster Radio-Television Serbia on Tuesday evening and denied that they committed the crimes of which they were convicted.

21 years since the NATO bombing

The sirens were heard for 78 days and the total number of casualties was never determined. An estimated 1,200 to 2,500 people were killed in the 11 weeks, with total material damage estimated at tens of billions of dollars.
The attack on Serbia, or the FRY, was carried out without UN Security Council approval, which was a precedent.

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