Operation Military_operation Stinger ( ; ) was an offensive undertaken by the forces Hostile_encounter of the SAO Krajina , an unrecognized Croatian Serb region opposing Agree_or_refuse_to_act the Republic of Croatia , against positions held by the Croatian police in the region of Banovina on 26–27 July 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence .

The 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) led by Colonel Ratko Mladić and the forces of the Serbian Autonomous Oblast ( region ) of Krajina ( SAO Krajina ) under Knin police chief Milan Martić besieged Besieging the Croat-inhabited village of Kijevo in late April and early May 1991 .

The 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) led by Colonel Ratko Mladić and the forces of the Serbian Autonomous Oblast ( region ) of Krajina ( SAO Krajina ) under Knin police chief Milan Martić besieged Besieging the Croat-inhabited village of Kijevo in late April and early May 1991 .

The JNA and the SAO Krajina forces renewed Recovering the blockade in mid-August .

The fighting in Kijevo was significant as one of the first instances when the JNA openly sided Self_motion with the SAO Krajina against Croatian authorities .

They were perpetrated Committing_crime by the Croatian Serb SAO Krajina police and generally targeted Aiming ethnic Croat civilians in Široka Kula .

In Serbian sources , `` War Military_operation in Croatia '' ( Рат у Хрватској / `` Rat u Hrvatskoj '' ) and `` War in Krajina '' ( Рат у Крајини / `` Rat u Krajini '' ) are used Using .

After this failed , Serb forces Causation established Creating the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia .

The secondary objective was threatening the single direct supply route between Drvar in the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska and Knin , the capital of the Croatian Serb Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) .

The Zagreb rocket attacks Attack were a series of two rocket attacks Attack conducted Action by the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina that used Using multiple rocket launchers to strike Attack the Croatian capital of Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence .

It was a decisive victory Getting for the Croatian Army ( HV ) , which attacked Attack across a front against the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) , and a strategic victory for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) .

The HV was supported Supporting by the Croatian special police advancing from the Velebit Mountain , and the ARBiH located in the Bihać pocket , in the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina 's ( ARSK ) rear .

It was fought Hostile_encounter between Croatian police and armed forces from the Croatian Serb-established SAO Krajina at the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia , on 31 March 1991 .

The fighting Hostile_encounter followed the SAO Krajina 's takeover of the Plitvice Lakes National Park and resulted in Causation Croatia recapturing Control the area .

The attacking Attack force of 8,500 troops commanded by HV 's Lieutenant General Ante Gotovina initially encountered Hostile_encounter strong resistance from the 5,500-strong Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) 2nd Krajina Corps .

The HV/HVO pushed Motion the VRS back , capturing Conquering about of territory and consequently intercepting the KninDrvar roada critical supply Supply route of the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) .

It soon spread Dispersal across Lika and Bosanska Krajina .

As NDH forces lacked the strength to suppress Hindering the uprising , the Italian Army , which was not a target of the rebels , expanded Expansion its zone of influence to Lika and parts of Bosanska Krajina .

The capture Conquering of Saborsko and the killing Killing and expulsion Removing of its civilian population was included Cause_to_be_included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) indictments of Milan Babić and Milan Martić , high-ranking officials of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Krajina .

On 20 May the 1st Krajina Assault Brigade was founded Creating , and the next day it obtained Getting tanks and a modest air force .

About 900 Partisan soldiers survived and founded Creating the Fifth Krajina Brigade .

Operation Military_operation Medak Pocket ( , Операција Медачки џеп ) was a military operation undertaken by the Croatian Army between 9 – 17 September 1993 , in which a salient reaching Arriving the south suburbs of Gospić , in the south-central Lika region of Croatia then under the control Control of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina , was attacked Attack by Croatian forces .