EXCERPTS from the statement made by brigadier
general Vladimir Lazarevic, commander of the Pristina
Corps
Pristina Corps Units are completing their assignment and keeping under control the province of Kosovo
and Metohija. In the past days the NATO criminal aggression accomplished only one thing –
unprecedented crimes against humanity against all the peoples living in Yugoslavia.
In the past 23 days of continued aggression, NATO criminals had to abandon their original Blitzkrieg
plan, and initiated the third phase of aggression. After the attacks on all military and industrial plants and
objectives, they have started destroying civilian facilities: schools, hospitals, commercial and industrial
sites, and even monasteries; this is what is referred to as an operation for the isolation of the battlefield
aimed at destroying all that moves, civilian convoys above all.
Five or six days ago and ahead of schedule, NATO practically entered the third phase of aggression on
our country. It started with the air-ground battle in the Pristina Corps zone. Along a front some 15-20
kilometers long, a ground aggression has been launched from Albania. It has been set up by NATO and
involves several thousand terrorists rounded up from Western Europe, Macedonia, Albania, and the
Albanian Army units, preceded by a relentless air preparation of the attack along the entire front with
Albania. The Pristina Corps units are still carrying out all assignments, protecting their combat potentials
from NATO air-strikes, defending the integrity of FR Yugoslavia and maintaining full military control of the
entire Kosmet, brigadier general Vladimir Lazarevic said.
NATO RAIDS ON CIVILIAN AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES IN THE NIGHT BETWEEN
APRIL 18TH AND 19TH 1999.
The attacks of enemy air force on FR Yugoslavia continued relentlessly in the past 24 hours. Various
cities have been
targeted by airborne barbarians, their objectives being purely administrative buildings, such as the
Vojvodina Province Executive Council Building in the very heart of Novi Sad.
UROSEVAC: (15:50) Various missiles have been fired on the municipal area.
PRISTINA:(17:00) Once more NATO aviation shelled the Slatina Airport, three missiles have been fired at
the Goles TV relay tower (19:11), and six missiles have been fired by NATO criminals targeting already
destroyed “Kosovski junaci”army barracks.
BACKA PALANKA: (1:40) A bridge linking the town with the town of Ilok in Croatia was hit.
NOVI SAD: (1:50) In the attack on the town centre, the building of Vojvodina Province Executive Council
was hit. Also, new attacks on the Oil Refinery were registered.
SUBOTICA: The attacks in the vicinity of a popular picnic grounds on lake Paliæ were registered.
KRALJEVO: (1:40) Bogutovacka banja was targeted with several missiles.
OBRENOVAC: (2:00) NATO aviation attacked the broader area of the town, while four missiles hit the
suburb of Baric.
PARACIN: (1:27- 1:37) Eleven missiles were fired at the Youth Camp, about 1km far from the town.
Fortunately, two days ago, after the first attack of the enemy, refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Croatia were moved out.
SREMSKA MITROVICA: Several explosions were registered in the town.
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