Batajnica

The sirens were heard for 78 days and the total number of casualties was never determined. An estimated 1,200 to 2,500 people were killed in the 11 weeks, with total material damage estimated at tens of billions of dollars.
The attack on Serbia, or the FRY, was carried out without UN Security Council approval, which was a precedent.

A military parade will be held there to mark Victory Day.

Lendita Morina with her father. Photo courtesy of Lendita Morina.

The bodies of 34 victims from Ljubenic were later found in a mass grave in Batajnica, near the Serbian capital Belgrade, and several others at a Serbian police compound in Petrovo Selo, while the rest were found in unmarked graves in Kosovo.

Vucic said NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia was a difficult and terrible time for the country, while a symbol of everything that NATO called collateral damage - was the suffering of children.
Asked about his memories of that time, the president told reporters in Belgrade:

There might be a possibility to introduce compulsory military service in about three years, but this depends on several factors, including finances, said Vucic to the press at Batajnica military airport.

He pointed out that compulsory service would provide the country with the possibility "to act preventively on anyone who might endanger its safety".

Vucic said this on Batajnica military airport during the test flights for the overhauled MIG-29s acquired from Russia.

"There is still a lot to be done so that Serbian citizens could live better. Still, the current state is incomparable to the one from previous years", said Vucic.

Seselj pleaded guilty on charges of unauthorized carrying of a weapon.

According to the agreement, which has been confirmed by the Higher Court, he was sentenced to six months under house arrest, without electronic surveillance.

This will come as part of a military-technical agreement reached between the presidents of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia, Vulin said.

He spoke while visiting the Batajnica military airport near Belgrade, where works are underway to overhaul and upgrade MiG-29 jets donated by Russia last year.

Participants in the Zima ("Winter") 2017 exercise, Serbian and US paratroopers, on Thursday morning practiced carrying out a parachuting assault.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the paratroopers jumped from two US C-130 aircraft that took off from the Batajnica airport.

BELGRADE - Freedom 2017, a military exercise commemorating Belgrade's WWII Liberation Day, was held at the Batajnica military airport on Friday with President Aleksandar Vucic in attendance.

The exercise included a forced landing of an AN-26 plane pursued by two MiG-29 jets, a search-and-rescue and a hostage rescue operation.