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The war ended 11 June, and Russian paratroopers seized Slatina airport to become the first peacekeeping force in the war zone. 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.
Incident at Pristina airport. A confrontation between Russian forces and NATO forces over the Pristina International Airport occurred on 12 June 1999, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War. Russian troops occupied the airport ahead of a NATO deployment, resulting in a tense stand-off, which was resolved peacefully.
The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the ...
In 2014, the Humanitarian Law Centre in Serbia and Kosovo compiled a list of people who were killed or went missing during the war and in its aftermath, from January 1998 to December 31, 2000. The list totaled 13,517 people and included 8,661 Albanian civilians, 1,196 Serbs, and 447 Roma, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians; the rest were combatants.
The international reaction to the Russo-Georgian War covered many nations, non-governmental organisations and non-state actors. The conflict began in 7th of August 2008 till 12th of August 2008 over South Ossetia and Abkhazia but spread elsewhere in Georgia. The war had a considerable humanitarian impact and affected the financial markets of ...
Victory. Yugoslav Forces invade the Neutral Zone of Junik and Drenica but are pushed back by Kachak rebels under Azem Galica. Drenica-Junik Uprising. (1924) Kachaks. Kosovo Albanians. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Defeat. Yugoslav forces annex areas of the Neutral Zone of Junik and Drenica.
Kosovo was included mainly in the Italian controlled area and was united to fascist Albania between 1941 and 1943. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, most of Kosovo was assigned to Italian-controlled Albania, with the rest being controlled by Germany and Bulgaria. A three-dimensional conflict ensued, involving inter-ethnic ...
Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War (outline) Map of Ukraine as of 26 May 2024 (details): Continuously controlled by Ukraine Occupied by Russia Regained from Russia Date 24 February 2022 – present (2 years, 3 months, 1 week and 2 days) Location Ukraine, Russia, Black Sea Status Ongoing (list of engagements · territorial control · timeline of events) Belligerents ...