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According to the data in the analysis of 15 August 1995 the casualties of the Split
Corps District in the operation totalled 5 dead and 21 wounded. 205
SVK General Staff
Intelligence Department
Str. conf. No. 2/31/3110-1
4 August 1995
Intelligence report
Serbian document on the shelling of Knin, 4 August 1995
Th e attack of the Croatian Army on the RSK started on 4 August 1995 at 05.00 with the shelling of the towns
of Knin, Drniš, Benkovac, Karin, Obrovac, Gračac, Korenica, the Udbina airstrip, Vojnić, Vrginmost and
Petrinja. Th e artillery preparation lasted until 05.30, followed by engagement of individual weapons of 130,
152 and 152 mm calibre and multiple rocket launchers.
Th e ustaše infantry attack started at about 06.00 from Sunja towards Kostajnica, with the engagement of
tanks, but units of the 39th Corps successfully repelled the attack. Another infantry attack was mounted from
the village of Brlog (Otočac) - Drenov Klanac - village of Glavace, but it was also successfully beaten back.
Knin was shelled from Livanjsko Polje and from several directions, and by the time of this report the
town has been hit by 200 to 300 projectiles of diff erent types and calibres. Th e target of the fi rst strike
was the building of the General Staff of the Serbian Army of Krajina, which sustained considerable
damage and the almost complete loss of the motor pool. Subsequently the fi re was focused on the ‘1300
Corporals’ barracks, the TVIK plant, the railway junction and housing below the Knin fortress [area of
the residence of the “RSK president” Mile Martić - author’s note] and other targets.
At 10.00, as this report is being written, hostile forces continue to attack Knin alternately with guns and
multiple rocket launchers, shell the Udbina airstrip continuously, and occasionally open fi re on other
settlements in the RSK.
By monitoring the radio links of the Croatian Army and their mobile telephones we have been able to
establish that the ustaše are sustaining considerable losses at Dubrovnik, Biograd-na-Moru, Gospić, Otočac,
Sisak ad Sunja. You will be duly informed of all the latest information.
Head of Department
Lieutenant Colonel Mihajlo Knežević
Copy to:
7th, 11th, 21st, 39th Corps, Special Unit Corps
General Staff of the Yugoslav Army - Second Directorate
General Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia
and Herzegovina - Intelligence Directorate
Command of the 1st and 2nd Krajina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina
205 SVA MORH, GSHV: Split Corps Command, IZM Knin, cl. str. conf. 81/95-01/19, reg. no. 1080-01-95-56
of 15 August 1995; Analysis of the Operation Kozjak-95. General Gotovina’s book, referring to information
provided by the head of the medical corps of the ZPS Command, lists 20 killed, 47 severely wounded and
141 lightly wounded, and 1 missing in action for the period from 4 to 12 August 1995. (Cf. A. Gotovina,
“Napadajni bojevi i operacije HV i HVO” /Off ensive HV and HVO Battles and Operations/, 187). However,
this probably includes the troops of the 14th Brigade killed in action at the Derala Pass on 12 August 1995,
i.e., four days aft er Operation Storm was formally over also for the Split Corps District.
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