Remembrance Day for Victims of NATO Aggression against FRY
Sunday, 24.3.2024 | Culture and traditions
The Remembrance Day for Victims of NATO Aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and 25 years since the beginning of the brutal bombing of a sovereign country has been marked by commemorative gatherings at commands, units and establishments of the Serbian Armed Forces and in a number of cities and municipalities by laying wreaths at memorials to those who perished while defending the fatherland.
Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff General Milan Mojsilović laid wreaths at the Memorial to the Victims of the 1990–2000 Wars in Kuršumlija and memorial honoring the fallen members of the Yugoslav Armed Forces at the “Toplica Uprising” Barracks in that city.
Paying tribute to the victims of NATO aggression, General Mojsilović has pointed out that members of the Serbian Armed Forces proudly keep the memory not only of the soldiers and officers who were killed while defending their fatherland, but also of all members of the security forces who perished during the aggression against our country.
Deputy Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff Lieutenant General Želimir Glišović laid a wreath at the memorial to Lance Corporal Boban Nedeljković at the “Ratko Pavlović Ćićko” Barracks in Prokuplje.
Together with members of their collegiums, Minister of Defence Miloš Vučević and Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff General Mojsilović will attend the ceremonial unveiling of the commemorative plaque to new Kosovo heroes in the crypt of the Church of St. Basil of Ostrog in Niš and the central state commemoration in Prokuplje.
Members of the Serbian Armed Forces also took part in commemorative activities in all garrisons and garrison places organized on the occasion of the Remembrance Day by the cities and municipalities, veterans and other organizations that nurture military traditions.
