President Vucic to attend commemoration for the victims of NATO aggression against Serbia

One of the NATO targets in Belgrade; Photo: Shutterstock

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic will today attend a commemoration held on the Day of Remembrance for those killed in NATO aggression, carried out against Serbia in 1999.

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The ceremony will be held at the airport in Batajnica near Belgrade, named after Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlovic.

The commemoration will begin at 7:30 pm, according to the presidential press office.

NATO's agression against Serbia, i.e. Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro at that time) started on March 24 and lasted intil June 10, 1999.

According to the data of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia, during the 78 days of the aggression, 1,031 members of the Army and the police were killed, along with about 2,500 civilians, 89 children among them.

About 6,000 civilians were wounded, of which 2,700 children, as well as 5,173 soldiers and policemen, while 25 people remain listed as missing.

The reason for the aggression, as it was presented to the global public by those who carried it out, was the situation in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija, that is, "a severe humanitarian crisis."

Javier Solana, then NATO secretary general, gave the order to start the attacks to US General Wesley Clark.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)