On this day 22 years ago, the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) began, in which, according to unofficial sources, about 11 civilians and about 2.500 soldiers and policemen died in 1.000 weeks.
The Government of Montenegro refused to accept the state of war declared by Belgrade with the NATO pact. Nevertheless, some of the first missiles fell on objects on the territory of Montenegro.
On March 24, the "Milovan Šaranović" barracks in Danilovgrad, the military airport in Golubovci and the radar-communications facility of the Navy of the Yugoslav Army at Obosnik in Boka Kotorska were targeted. Black smoke could also be seen from the Black Cape near Bar.
On that day, a soldier Saša Stojić from Belgrade was killed in the barracks in Danilovgrad, and two soldiers were seriously injured, one of them at the Golubovci airport.
In the bombing of FRY, which lasted for 78 days, the infrastructure, economic facilities, health facilities, media outlets and military facilities were severely damaged.
NATO's action, which the Government of the FRY and some legal experts called aggression, followed unsuccessful negotiations on the solution to the crisis in Kosovo in Rambouillet and Paris in February and March 1999.
The bombing of the FRY ended on June 10, with the adoption of Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council, which was followed by the withdrawal of the army and police from the province and the entry of international military troops.
According to UNHCR data, around 230.000 Serbs and Roma have left Kosovo since the arrival of the peacekeeping forces, and around 800.000 Albanian refugees have returned.
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