| Operation Vukovar '95 (Operation Thunder) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Croatian War of Independence | ||||||||
 Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
 Croatia |
 Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia Republic of Serbian Krajina |
 UN Administration of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
|
Zvonimir Červenko |
Dušan Lončar |
Jacques Paul Klein | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| 30,000 soldiers and 140 tanks[2] | c. 25,000 soldiers[3] | 1,200 soldiers and 34 tanks[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| c. Unknown[4] | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The Operation Vukovar '95, more known as the Vukovar dove (in Croatian: Vukovarska golubica)[2][5] was a planned military-police operation of the Croatian Army in early November 1995 and in mid 1996.[5] The operation was intended to militarily liberate the last remaining occupied part of Croatia after Operation Storm which at the time was the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.[5] The operation was abandoned due to international community efforts that led to the establishment of the UN-led UNTAES temporary transitional administration over the region following the signing of the Erdut Agreement.
- ^ Mate Granić, External Affairs, Behind the Scenes of Politics (Zagreb, 2005), p. 147–148
- ^ a b c "Galbraith: We didn't know what the Republic of Croatia would be like, but now it is a modern country". vecernji.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2024-06-16.
- ^ "The Serbian region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem - from the "Storm" to the completion of the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube region (part one), Nikica Barić, scrinia slavonica 11 (2011), 393-454". Page 449
- ^ "Witnesses of the time speak for Globus about a burning issue: How the law on general amnesty paid the price of peaceful reintegration". jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2023-12-01.
- ^ a b c "Homeland war - a strategic view". hrsvijet.net (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2021-12-07.
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