Belgrade Offensive

SABAC - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday he had received Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation to the October 22-24 BRICS summit in Kazan about ten days ago but that he would have important guests from abroad at the time of the event.

The same is true of "cooperation and peace with everyone, because only in peace can they continue to build and elevate our one and only Serbia," Vucic said in Belgrade, according to the Serbian government.

BELGRADE - Belgrade was liberated from Nazi occupation on October 20 70 years ago, after four years of occupation that resulted in the death of around 60,000 people.

The operation to free the city was conducted jointly by the Yugoslav Partisans and the Soviet Red Army. They fought for each street and building from October 11 to 20.

BELGRADE - The military parade to mark 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade in World War II will be held in front of the Palace of Serbia and on the Danube River, gathering around 3,000 members of the Serbian Armed Forces and Defence Ministry.

BELGRADE - Serbia marked on Saturday 69 years since the breakthrough of the Axis lines on the Syrmian Front after a 175-day campaign to liberate Yugoslavia from Nazi occupation in World War II.

The Syrmian Front campaign saw some of the most difficult and longest and most tragic WWII fighting. Over 250,000 soldiers fought in the trench battles from October 21, 1944 to April 12, 1945.

BELGRADE - Serbia marked on Saturday 69 years since the breakthrough of the Axis lines on the Syrmian Front after a 175-day campaign to liberate Yugoslavia from Nazi occupation in World War II.

The Syrmian Front campaign saw some of the most difficult and longest and most tragic WWII fighting. Over 250,000 soldiers fought in the trench battles from October 21, 1944 to April 12, 1945.