Central Drenica offensive

Central Drenica offensive
Part of the Kosovo War and the Drenica massacres
Date 22–26 September 1998 Location Central Drenica, AP Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia (present day Kosovo) Result KLA victory[1] Yugoslav troops withdraw from Likovac and the Obrinje region due to international pressure.[2][3]
Belligerents
Kosovo Liberation Army	FR Yugoslavia
Commanders and leaders
Mujë Krasniqi Fehmi Lladrovci † Sylejman Selimi Ilaz Kodra[4]	Slobodan Milosevic Vlastimir Đorđević Sreten Lukić Nebojša Pavković Stojan Konjikovac Frenki Simatović
Units involved
114th brigade	Yugoslav armed forces Yugoslav Police Special Operations Unit
Strength
Unknown	Unknown number of soldiers backed-up by tanks and armored vehicles.
Casualties and losses
Many killed[5]	14 killed 3 tanks destroyed 1 armored vehicle destroyed
35 Kosovar-Albanian civilians killed

The Central Drenica offensive was an offensive undertaken by the Yugoslav army against the Kosovo Liberation Army in the villages of Likovac, Gornje Obrinje, Glanasela and other villages in the central area of the Drenica region. The offensive lasted between 22 and 26 September 1998.