Assault on Majevica (1995)

Assault on Majevica
Part of the Bosnian war
Date 20 March – 7 April 1995 Location Majevica and surrounding areas Result Army of Republika Srpska victory Despite heavy casualties on both sides, ARBiH failed to capture the strategic Mount Stolice summit and radio and television transmitter[1]
Belligerents
Republika Srpska	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Commanders and leaders
Ratko Mladić	Refik Lendo
Units involved
Army of Republika Srpska Tactical Group Majevica 1st Bijeljina Light Infantry Brigade 3rd Military Police Battalion MUP Special Police detachment	Army of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2nd Corps 25th Division
Strength
6,000	14,000
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Heavy

In March and April 1995 during the last year of the Bosnian War, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) attacked several heights around Mount Stolice – the highest peak within the Majevica mountain range in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina – in an attempt to encircle and then capture it from the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) defenders. Despite ARBiH success in surrounding the summit of Mount Stolice and its important radio and television transmitter after heavy casualties were suffered on both sides, VRS reserves counterattacked and lifted the blockade. The ARBiH made no further attempts to capture the summit for the remainder of the war. The transmitter was destroyed by a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation airstrike in late August 1995, and territory of Mount Stolice was transferred to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War.