ZAGREB, August 5, 2018 - Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Davor Bernardić on Sunday said that statements by Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić do not contribute to establishing and normalising relations between Croatia and Serbia while the president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) parliamentary group Branko Bačić considers that it is important for Serb MP in Croatian Parliament Milorad Pupovac to express his view of Vučić's statement.

ZAGREB, August 5, 2018 - A day before the 23rd anniversary of Operation Storm, a joint Croatian military and police operation that ended a Serb armed rebellion in August 1995 and restored Croatian sovereignty over occupied central and southern parts of the country, enabling peaceful reintegration of eastern Croatia in January 1998, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić paid his respects to the Serb victims, saying the Operation Storm was motivated by hatred towards Serbs and that strong Serbia would never again allow another Storm.

Croatia marks the 23rd anniversary of Operation Storm.

ZAGREB, August 4, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on Saturday attended the unveiling of a monument at Ljubovo, near Gospić, commemorating 68 local Croatian soldiers and police killed in Operation Storm during the war of independence 23 years ago.

ZAGREB, August 4, 2018 - On the occasion of Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of War Veterans, observed on August 5, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Saturday extended a message of congratulations underscoring that soldiers' determination in the fight for Croatia's freedom was a signpost for the strengthening of an organised and advanced society which offers equal opportunities to all, adding that such a society would not have been possible had it not been for Operation Storm.

ZAGREB, August 4, 2018 - Operation Storm, a joint military and police operation that ended a Serb armed rebellion in August 1995 and restored Croatian sovereignty over occupied central and southern parts of the country, enabling peaceful reintegration of eastern Croatia in January 1998, started 23 years ago today.

ZAGREB, August 3, 2018 - The Serb National Council (SNV) on Friday issued a statement ahead of the 23rd anniversary of Operation Storm, saying that even 23 years after the end of the war in Croatia, the spirit of war was not giving way to a spirit of peace in public and private relations in Croatia and in its relations with other countries.

ZAGREB, August 3, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Thursday dismissed the argument that speeches on Victory Day and Homeland Thanksgiving Day in Knin on Sunday were planned for 8 a.m. so that he would not be booed by citizens.

ZAGREB, August 3, 2018 - The landing in Croatia of the F-16 Barak fighter jets which will fly over Knin on Victory Day on Sunday confirms the military partnership with Israel and that the strategic decision to procure Israeli fighter jets was the right one, it was said on Thursday at Pleso military air base when top Croatian political and military leaders welcomed representatives of Israel's Air Force.

ZAGREB, August 1, 2018 - Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Wednesday that Serbia would mark the anniversary of 1995's Operation Storm in Croatia in dignity, and added that in reference to Serbia-Croatia relations President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was the "least worst partner in Croatia."