| Brest attack | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||||
 National Liberation Army |
 Macedonia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
|
Xhezair Shaqiri[3] Nazmi Sulejmani[4] |
 Ljube Boškoski[5] Refet Elmazi[6] Aleksandar Dončev[5] | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
|
113th Brigade "Ismet Jashari"[7] |
 Special Support Unit[5] | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
|
30+ insurgents (police estimate)[5] |
100 policemen[8] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
|
None |
1 killed[9][5][10][6] | ||||||||
The Brest attack was an attack by the National Liberation Army (NLA), near the village of Brest on 10 March 2001 during the insurgency in Macedonia.[9][11][6] the NLA ambushed a Macedonian convoy, after they were defeated and forced to withdraw by KFOR troops in the village of Tanuševci.
- ^ Phillips, John (2004). Macedonia : warlords and rebels in the Balkans. Internet Archive. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-300-10268-0.
The rebels had seized the villages of Brest and Malina Mahala in fierce fighting with elite Macedonian 'Wolves' special forces units
- ^ Gall, Carlotta (2001-03-10). "Rebel Ambush Traps Macedonian Police and 2 Officials". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
Rebels abandoned the village of Tanusevci ahead of the operation by American troops on Wednesday night, but they moved into the nearby villages of Molino and Brest.
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- ^ "Xhezair Shaqiri: Komandant Arusha luftoi në betejat më të vështira të UÇK-së në Brezë, Mateç dhe Haraçinë!". Bota Sot. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
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- ^ "Vulnerability of former Yugoslav NATO (Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia) and non-NATO (Bosnia- Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia) states". Defending Eastern Europe. Manchester University Press. 24 August 2021. doi:10.7765/9781526147578.00013. ISBN 9781526147578. S2CID 242656223. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
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