At the beginning of the Serbian aggression, Croatia was disarmed. The only way to defend was to steal weapons from the aggressor, so a war for the barracks ensued.
It covers the period of the first half of October 1991, when the Yugoslav People's Army, together with Serbian paramilitary forces, synchronously attacked Croatian defense forces in all areas of the Republic of Croatia.
On the first day of October 1991, the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army) and Montenegrin reservists launched an attack on Dubrovnik and southern Croatia. Croatian defenders stopped their advance.
During September and October 1991, weapons and ammunition for the war had to be seized from the JNA warehouse. In western Slavonia, fierce fighting took place around Pakrac and Lipik.
Rudolf Peresin's flight from Bihac to Klagenfurt in 1991 symbolically marked the beginning of the formation of the Croatian Air Force. In Dalmatia, ships of the Yugoslav Navy threatened to destroy the city of Split.
The fall of Bogdanovci was the announcement of the fall of Vukovar, which seemed to the JNA reinforced with paramilitary formations easy prey. However, the heroism of the Vukovar defenders prevented the JNA from advancing through Slavonia.
Since the beginning of the aggression on Croatia, Saborsko and Slunj have been surrounded by paramilitary Serb formations and the JNA. A similar fate befell the village of Laslovo, one of the keys to the defense of the city of Osijek
During the aggression against the Republic of Croatia, several thousand people ended up in captivity in Serb camps in the occupied territory of Croatia and in Serbia and Montenegro. The city of Dubrovnik came under heavy attack.
While they mostly defended themselves on all other battlefields, Croatian troops in western Slavonia launched the first large-scale offensive and liberation operations.
The town of Vinkovci is a place that felt Serbian aggression very early. As it was located on one of the main routes of the Yugoslav People's Army's attack on Croatia, there were always 300 to 350 JNA tanks around the town of Vinkovci.
During the Serbian aggression on Croatia, the aggressor destroyed churches, chapels and monasteries. In the early morning of December 31, a strong tank-infantry attack began on the entire battlefield of northern Dalmatia.
