With a minute of silence and the laying of fresh flowers at the memorial in Katlanovsko Blace, today, 12 January, marked the seventeenth anniversary of the tragic death of the eleven members of the Army, who lost their lives while returning from the ALTHEA peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Delegations from the Ministry of Defence and the Army General Staff, led by Defence Minister Vlado Misajlovski and the Chief of the Army General Staff, Major General Sashko Lafchiski, the Operations Command, the 1st Infantry Brigade, the Air Force Ving, the Municipality of Petrovec and the family members paid tribute to the fallen members of the Army.
On that occasion, Minister of Defence Vlado Misajlovski emphasized that today, at the site of this great tragedy, we pay tribute to the Macedonian heroes together with their family members, heroes who will never be forgotten.
Previously, at the Strasho Pindzhur Barracks in Petrovec, members of the Air Force Ving paid tribute by laying fresh flowers at the memorial in front of the Air Force Ving command.
Respect for the eleven fallen Macedonian members will also be paid at the memorial park in Camp Butmir, Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where our members were part of the ALTHEA mission.
In the helicopter crash, seventeen years ago today, while returning from the ALTHEA peacekeeping mission, Lieutenant Colonel Toni Spasovski, Major Goran Ristovski, Captains Brane Spasovski and Igor Gjoreski, Sergeants Slavcho Vasilev and Toni Davitkovski, Staff Sergeants Janko Shirikj and Aleksandar Taskovski, Sergeants Miki Ivanovski and Aleksandar Vasic, and Corporal Zlatko Veljanoski tragically lost their lives.
