Novi Sad

At 23:50 and 00:10 on 08-06-1999, Novi Sad refinery was attacked with 10 missiles. Several bombs struck nearby residential area of Sangaj, in 7th street. Milan Bajic, age 37 was killed. Eight people were seriously injured, among them is one 11 year old boy. Large number of houses in Sangaj is destroyed and damaged. Eyewitnesses said that this was fiercest attack on Novi Sad so far. Around midnight, several explosions were heard from direction of Fruska Gora mountain.

Mother of Milan Bojic, who was killed in NATO attack on Novi Sad, on 08-06-1999.

Citizens of Novi Sad without Bridges, crossing Danube under NATO attack on nearby suburbs.

Power grid in Novi Sad, just like in rest of Serbia, was under NATO attacks. Power supplying and hence water and bread supplying are highly irregular and unstable. With its attacks on power grid in Serbia NATO willingly created real humanitarian catastrophe of 10 million people. Ironically, only Milosevic regime is spared.

Exclusive photo of the explosions in Novi Sad oil refinery.

Another NATO attack on Novi Sad. Building of state television broadcasting company RTS was once more on the aim.

NATO bombed the military barrack in Novi Sad with 8-9 missiles. Few missiles went off target and hit the residential area. One missile fell in the Janko Cmelnik street and heavily damaged two houses and primary school "Svetozar Markovic Toza". Missile made 10 meters wide and 4 meters deep hole in the middle of the street, while the next street entrance is blocked. Three more missiles fell in the surrounding area. Fortunately, residents of that area were evacuated on time, so there were no casualties.

Nato attack more than 10 times oil refinery in Novi Sad. Due to smoke from burning refineries in Novi Sad breading is very difficult. If there is waters in the pipes, it is not drinkable. Acid rains are falling for days.

Building of Radio-television Novi Sad was completely destroyed in one of the NATO attacks.

Zezelj Bridge in Novi Sad was targeted on April 26th 1999 for the fourth and final time. This time it suffered 7 direct hits, and was torn down to Danube. Demolition was completely unnecessery, because the bridge was closed for traffic due to previous attacks.

Zezelj Bridge in Novi Sad was targeted on April 23rd 1999 for the third time. This time the bridge suffered 5 direct hits, but although disabled for traffic, it is still standing! This bridge and its refusal to fall into the Danube has becamome a symbol of meaningless destruction of civilian infrastructure by NATO.

NATO forces destroyed TV transmiter on Cot, in close vicinity of Novi Sad.

Zezelj bridge, which had been damaged in recent attacks, was hit with four missiles in the early afternoon. There is no information on casualties. People living on Srem side of Danube (Petrovaradin, Sremski Karlovci) are often without water, since they have been depending on Novi Sad water system. The attacks so far disabled the bridge for traffic. This is the seventh destroyed bridge on the Danube.

NATO is targeting the oil refinery in Novi Sad day by day. Due to frequent fires, clouds of smoke blanket the city. Residential buildings in the vicinity were substantially damaged due to frequent quakes, and most of residents were evacuated because of possible toxic gas poisoning.
Note: acid rains appeared in Novi Sad today, as one of our members testifies. This is just one of the results of the destruction of the refinery in Novi Sad, as well as other chemical facilities across Yugoslavia.

A demolished residential area in the suburbs of Novi Sad. There are many civilian victims throughout the city, which has very frequently been a target of NATO assaults. The number of citizens wounded by NATO missiles and bombs is increasing day after day.

An explosion of a petroleum refinery hit in the suburbs of Novi Sad. A thick cloud of smoke enveloped the town and petroleum spilled from damaged tanks into the Danube river forming a 4 km long spill.

Varadin Bridge connected Novi Sad with the medieval fort of Petrovaradin - before and after destruction.

Novi Sad bridges before demolition. Two of three bridges that can be seen on this picture are destroyed.
Note: since this picture was posted the third and the last bridge have been destroyed.

Liberty Bridge in Novi Sad, linking the town with Sremska Kamenica, a suburb holding the Institute for Cardio-vascular Diseases.

Citizens of Novi Sad approach the crumbled Varadin Bridge on April 1st, which connected Novi Sad with Petrovaradin, a medieval fort.

Varadin Bridge supported the infrastructure that supplied water and electricity to Novi Sad, a part of the city is now deprived of these essentials.