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order of the President of the Republic Dr. Franjo Tuđman. General Stipetić regrouped the
153 rd Brigade and the Glina Regiment and ordered the commitment of the 102 nd Brigade
on the Glina axis. Darkness and the lack of a reserve for TG-2 frustrated the intention. At
the left fl ank of TG-2 two infantry platoons of the HV 2 nd Guards Brigade and 12 th Home
Guard Regiment attacked the Hunting Lodge. Th e commander of a company of the 12 th
Home Guard Regiment was killed in the attack, which was discontinued and the units
withdrew, partly in a disorganized fashion, from the area. 361
East of Petrinja units of the HV 57 th and 101 st Brigades held their positions set up the
day before, 362 while the 57 th Brigade was reinforced in the morning by the commitment
of the second battalion of the HV 149 th Brigade in order to protect the fl anks of the
achieved line in the envelopment of the Komarevo - Blinja road. 363
In the Sunja theatre, aft er failure on the fi rst day of the operation and regrouping, the
17 th Home Guard Regiment again tried at noon to break through the Serbian defence
line. Aft er artillery preparation and with the support of two tanks of the 2 nd Guards
Brigade it attacked and captured the village of Strmen and then seized the Strmen -
village of Slovinci road. In the evening part of the regiment attacked Vedro Polje but
gained no ground. 364 Th e 151 st Brigade also achieved some progress. By pushing on from
Bobovac towards the bridge on the river Sunja in reached by early evening the village
of Slovinci, while some of its units set up the position for sustaining the assault west
of the same village in front of the railway. 365 During the day the HV 145 th Brigade was
transferred by order of the commander of the Zagreb Corps District from Popovača to
the villages of Bobovac, Stremen and Kratečko. In the evening the brigade was ordered
to mount the attack towards Selište Kostajničko through the battle formation of the HV
151 st Brigade. 366 By 2200 it seized the Sunja railway station at the entrance to the village
of Drljače. Th e attack was not continued because of the dark. 367
361 MORH, GSHV: TG commander, 12 August 1995, report on TG action. According to other sources, TG-2
units did not «engage in combat actions» on 5 August, and the commander of the Moščenica company,
Lieutenant Božan Martan, was killed on 4 August. Domagoj Bernić, Hrvoje Bešlić, Vladimir Krpan, «Katalog
izložbe ‘Pobjeda’: Povodom 10. obljetnice vojno-redarstvene operacije ‘Oluja’. 1995-2005» (Catalogue of
the Exhibition ‘Victory’: On the Tenth Anniversary of the Military-Police Operation ‘Storm’, 1995-2005),
Petrinja 2005. Comments of General Petar Stipetić on the text about the Zagreb Corps District in the military-police
operation Storm.
362 MORH, GSHV: APO 3099, cl. 119-01/95-01, reg. no. 3099-01/95-092/1 of 13 August 1995; Analysis. MORH,
GSHV: APO 2123, cl. 8/95-01, reg. no. 2123-02/02/2-95-733/2 of 6 September 1995; Action analysis.
363 MORH, GSHV: APO 3006, cl. 803-02/95-06, reg. no. 3006-07-95-0927 of 5 August 1995; Daily opera-
tional report.
364 MORH, GSHV: APO 8314, cl. 81/95-01/01, reg. no. 8314-01/01-2-95-184 of 5 September 1995; Action
analysis.
365 MORH, GSHV: APO 3008, cl. 81/95-01/01, reg. no. 3008-01/95-559 of 4 August 1995; Action com-
ments.
366 MORH, GSHV: AP0 3002, cl. 030-01/95-01, reg. no. 3002-01/95-1451 of 6 September 1995; Analysis.
367 MORH, GSHV: APO 2125, cl. 8/95-01/951, reg. no. 2125-02/95-66 of 1 September 1995; Action analysis.
On 5 August, comments the CIA analysis, the Zagreb Corps District was still making heavy weather against
General Tarbuk’s SVK Banija Corps, but the weight of the HV was beginning to wear down the Serbs. Th e
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