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On 25 June 1991, Politika reminded Serbs about the atrocities perpetrated by the Croatian fascist Ustaše against Serbs during World War II; "Jasenovac [an Ustaše concentration camp in World War II] mustn't be forgotten". [10] Serbian state media during the wars featured controversial reportage that villainized the other ethnic factions.
[31] [32] [33] According to the BBC, Serbian public sentiment during the Russo-Ukrainian war has been decidedly pro-Russian, with over 70% of Serbian citizens supporting Russia over Ukraine. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Numerous murals and graffiti supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine appeared throughout Serbia's capital Belgrade following the invasion.
The war ended 11 June, and Russian paratroopers seized Slatina airport to become the first peacekeeping force in the war zone. [198] As British troops were still massed on the Macedonian border, planning to enter Kosovo at 5:00 am, the Serbs were hailing the Russian arrival as proof the war was a UN operation, not a NATO operation. [195]
The massacre in 1995, which happened in the week after the U.N. safe zone of Srebrenica was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces, was seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, and ...
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...
The Grdelica train bombing occurred on 12 April 1999, when two missiles fired by a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle fighter bomber hit a passenger train while it was passing across a railway bridge over the South Morava river in the Grdelica gorge, some 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of Belgrade, Serbia. At least 20 civilian passengers were killed or ...
Beginning of the Albanian Resistance against Serbia; Serbian-Ottoman War (1352) Part of the Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357: Serbian Empire Bulgarian Empire Supported by: John V Palaiologos: Ottoman Beylik Supported by: John VI Kantakouzenos: Defeat. Serbia loses the first major battle of the Ottomans which were increasingly becoming a ...
The Russo-Ukrainian War [d] began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War. These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare.