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  • 2021-03-26 (xsd:date)
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  • lost their lives. That @NATO aggression became the first armed offence against a sovereign state in Europe since the end of #WWII (en)
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  • On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched Operation Allied Force against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) during the Kosovo War.NATO said the large-scale air campaign was intended to halt Serbian forces’ ethnic cleansing against ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. The bombing came to an end on June 10, 1999, after FRY President Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw troops from Kosovo and allow in peacekeepers.A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle refuels in-flight from a KC-135R Stratotanker in the skies over Macedonia, on March 26, 1999, as the two aircraft fly missions in support of NATO Operation Allied Force against targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.Kosovo Albanian refugees were allowed to return home, and Kosovo was given self-rule, paving the way for full independence. Milosevic died in 2006 while standing trial for war crimes in The Hague.This week, Russia, which has always condemned the NATO airstrikes in the FRY as illegal, issued a statement via its U.K. embassy on the 22nd anniversary of the NATO campaign.#OTD in 1999 #NATO started its military aggression against #Yugoslavia. During the barbaric bombings over 2000 peaceful civilians (en)
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