During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.Valjevo was bombed several times with strategic bombers, the targets were factories, warehouses, radio antenna receivers.

Chronology of the bombing

• 14. April 1999. - In Valjevo
  Valjevo
  Valjevo is a city and municipality located in western Serbia. It is the center of the Kolubara District, which includes five other smaller municipalities with a total population of almost 180,000 people...
  
  , around 5:30, the Krušik factory was bombed, as was its largest urban settlement. The explosion damaged a hospital and school of agriculture.

• 17. April 1999. - Around 2:10, Valjevo was bombed. Krušik factory was hit. The bombing damaged the factory and a medical station, then the surrounding houses, nursery and agricultural schools.

• 20. April 1999. - Around 3:17, 7 bombs were dropped on Valjevo and all hit the Krušik factory.

• 21. April 1999. - Around 0:20, the Krušik factory in Valjevo was bombed for a fourth time. This time, trees were targetted so that large fire broke out.

• 23. April 1999. - Krušik factory was bombed for a fifth time.

• 2. May 1999. - B-2 bombers drop bombs on the Krušik factory and nearby settlement "Milorad Pavlović", most of the buildings were destroyed.

• 4. May 1999. - The death of pilot Milenko Pavlović, who was downed in his MIG-29 over Valjevo.

On 4. May 1999. around 12:00 hours, a large group of NATO aircraft was observed flying in the direction of Valjevo, later bombing mainly the munition factory Krušik, as well as military depots in the village Pričević. Command to take off received one of the younger officers. However, Lieutenant Colonel Pavlović with telephone line ordered to keep the pilot, and instead he flew to Valjevo with his MiG-29, № 18109th He soon found the Valjevo, however, after the take off, he realized that aircraft has broken alternator, so that it lost radar. Pavlović engaged in an unequal battle against 16 NATO aircraft, managed to confuse them and even force them on escape with fearless appearance, but, soon, about 12:45, was hit by three rockets, fired by Dutch pilots flying an F-16. He was killed back in the air. The remains of his plane fell into the village of Petnica

Petnica

Petnica is a small village near Valjevo, Serbia. According to the census of 2002, there were 614 inhabitants .-History:Petnica was founded at the beginning of the 15th century...

. He was buried on 6 May 1999, in a Bežanija cemetery.

• 8 May 1999. - Police station in Valjevo was destroyed.

• 9. May 1999. - Krušik Factory in Valjevo was targetted once again.

• 17. May 1999. - Another attack on the Krušik factory left at least one person dead and injured 13 people.

See also

• 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Legitimacy of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
  Legitimacy of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
  The legitimacy of the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been subject to question by many bodies and individuals from the time of the action continuing to this day. The key basis governing the legality of any act of war is international law...
  
  
• Kosovo War
  Kosovo War
  The term Kosovo War or Kosovo conflict was two sequential, and at times parallel, armed conflicts in Kosovo province, then part of FR Yugoslav Republic of Serbia; from early 1998 to 1999, there was an armed conflict initiated by the ethnic Albanian "Kosovo Liberation Army" , who sought independence...
  
  
• Strategic Bombardment in the Kosovo War