operation winter '94 was followed by operation leap 1 ( `` operacija skok 1 '' ) on 7 april 1995 , which improved Cause_to_make_progress hv positions on mount dinara on the southern rim of the field , dominating Control the area around the rsk capital .

operation storm Damaging was a strategic victory in the bosnian war , effectively ending the siege of UNK and placing the hv , croatian defence council ( hvo ) and the arbih in a position to change Change the military balance of power in bosnia and herzegovina through the subsequent operation mistral 2 .

the hv capture of bosansko grahovo just before operation storm , and the special police 's advance to unk , made it Causation nearly impossible to defend Defending knin .

operation Military_operation unk ( ) was a military offensive undertaken by the croatian army ( `` hrvatska vojska '' , or hv ) against the sao western slavonia territorial defense Defending forces on unk mountain in western slavonia .

the operation failed to achieve Achieve its declared Expressing_publicly primary goal of drawing vrs units away from the besieged Besieging city of UNK , but it placed Placing the hv in position to capture Conquering the rsk 's capital knin in operation storm Catastrophe days later .

the area was viewed Perception_active as strategic to the croatian military effort by the hv general staff because it presented Presence an obstacle to the supply Supply of the rsk and it pinned down a portion of the rsk military , as well as some vrs forces Military_operation that would otherwise have been redeployed Arranging .

although operation tiger captured Conquering only of territory , it secured the unk road and placed Placing the hv in a position to capture Conquering the rest of southern dalmatia over the following three-and-a-half months .

at the same time , the croatian army ( `` hrvatska vojska '' UNK hv ) and the croatian defence council ( `` hrvatsko unk unk '' UNK hvo ) were engaging the vrs in operation unk 2 further to the southeast .

operation Military_operation unk ( ) was a military offensive undertaken Action by the croatian army ( `` hrvatska vojska '' UNK hv ) against the yugoslav people 's army ( `` unk narodna armija '' UNK jna ) and sao western slavonia territorial defense Defending forces in the sava river valley , in the region of western slavonia during the croatian war of independence .