War stories from Pastrik

Based on the testimonies of more than 30 interviewees, officers, servicemen and volunteers who were members of the 549th Motorized Brigade, we described the events about the battle fought in the region of Mount Paštrik. The reconstructions and dramatizations of events were filmed on mountain ranges around Dimitrovgrad, Pirot and Niš and at the Pasuljanske Livade proving ground. The battle of Paštrik was the second part of the land offensive that KLA terrorists tried to execute in cooperation with NATO forces and regular Albanian army units from the direction of the Republic of Albania toward Kosovo and Metohija in 1999. When it became clear that the Košare offensive did not yield results and that they could not break the defense of the Yugoslav army in that region, KLA launched an attack on Mount Paštrik near Prizren. Like in Košare, the goal was for the KLA forces from Albania to join the KLA forces in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija. The Operation Arrow 2, as Albanian and
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