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09.04.2020. - 18:59

Awarding of decorations on the 21st Anniversary of the Battle of Košare

On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the Battle of Košare, the President of the Republic and the Commander-in-Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces Aleksandar Vučić awarded the Order of the White Eagle with Swords of the Second Degree to Lieutenant Colonel Dragutin Dimčevski, for his personal heroism and accomplished command of the 53rd Battalion of the Yugoslav Army during 1998 and 1999.

On Good Friday, on the 9th April 1999, members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, backed by the Albanian Army and NATO aviation, crossed the state border in the Košare frontier guard post where they attacked Yugoslav Army units intending to interrupt communications on the Đakovica-Prizren line and occupy a larger part of Metohija.
 
The border battalion was the first unit of our Army to take the enemy strike and heroically resisted the enemy attacks while guarding the Fatherland. Also, the 125th Motorized Brigade, the 63rd Parachute Brigade, part of the 72nd Special Brigade, Military Police, part of the 549th Motorized Brigade, parts of the Priština Corps, reservists and Russian volunteers were engaged in the battle.
 
The Battle of Košare lasted until the end of the NATO aggression in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the 10th June 1999; losses on both sides were tremendous: 108 members of the Yugoslav Army (18 officers and NCOs, 50 regular soldiers, 13 reservists, 24 volunteers). In the enemy ranks, the so-called KLA lost more than 200 members and five Albanian Army tanks were destroyed.
 
 
Belgrade, 9th April 2020
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