The Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia are the military forces of Croatia.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served as President of Croatia from 2015 to 2020. She was the first woman to be elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. At 46 years of age,she also became the youngest person to assume the presidency.
The military history of Croatia encompasses wars,battles and all military actions fought on the territory of modern Croatia and the military history of the Croat people regardless of political geography.
Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders is a public holiday in Croatia that is celebrated annually on 5 August,commemorating the Croatian War of Independence. On that date in 1995 the Croatian Army took the city of Knin during Operation Storm,which effectively brought an end to Republic of Serbian Krajina proto-state. In 2008,the Croatian Parliament also assigned the name Day of Croatian Defenders to the holiday,which honors the current service members and veterans of the Armed Forces of Croatia.
Božidar Kalmeta is a Croatian politician and member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party. From 2003 to 2011 he served in the Croatian Government as Croatia's Minister of the Sea,Transport and Infrastructure under HDZ prime ministers Ivo Sanader and Jadranka Kosor.
Ministry of Croatian Veterans is a ministry of the Croatian Government which is split into several directorates:
Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician serving as President of Croatia since 19 February 2020. Prior to assuming the presidency,he was prime minister from 2011 to 2016 and president of the Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2016.
The Eleventh Government of the Republic of Croatia was the Croatian Government cabinet led by Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor. It was announced on 6 July 2009 and its term ended on 23 December 2011. The cabinet came into existence after Prime Minister Ivo Sanader abruptly resigned on 1 July 2009,designating Kosor as his successor and making her the first woman to serve as Prime Minister since Croatia gained independence in 1991. It was succeeded by the Cabinet of Zoran Milanovićfollowing the centre-left Kukuriku coalition's success in the 2011 parliamentary elections.
Ivan Vekić was a Croatian politician and lawyer. He was one of the founders of the Croatian Democratic Union and served as the Croatian Minister of Interior during the Croatian War of Independence.
Jean-Michel Nicollier was a French volunteer and Croatian soldier in the Croatian War of Independence who was killed in the Vukovar massacre.
Aleksandar Vulin is a Serbian politician and lawyer serving as the director of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) since 1 December 2022. Additionally,he previously served as director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija from 2012 to 2013,minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo and Metohija from 2013 to 2014,minister of labour,employment,veteran and social policy from 2014 to 2017,minister of defence from 2017 to 2020,and as minister of internal affairs from 2020 to 2022. He has been called ""man of Moscow".
The Thirteenth Government of the Republic of Croatia was the Croatian Government cabinet led by Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković. It was the government cabinet of Croatia between 22 January until 19 October 2016. It was formed following the 2015 election. The negotiation process leading to its formation was the longest in Croatian history,totaling at a record 76 days. On 16 June 2016,Orešković's government lost a motion of no confidence in the Parliament with 125 MPs voting for,15 against and 2 abstaining. As a result,the Oreškovićcabinet served in an acting capacity until a new government took office after the 2016 election.
Mirko Šundov is a Croatian General who served as a Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia from 2016 until 2020.
Nevenka Topalušić was a Croatian nurse and war veteran.
Predrag Fred Matić is a Croatian centre-left politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a Member of European Parliament since 2019. He previously served as Minister of Veterans' Affairs from 2011 to 2016,in the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović.
2014–2016 Croatian war veterans tent protest was 555 days long war veterans protest,often dubbed in Croatia as The Tenters. The protests were initially aimed against Ministry of Croatian Veterans deputy Bojan Glavaševićand Minister Predrag Matićhimself,however the protesters subsequently changed their demands and started demanding the resignation of centre-left Prime Minister Zoran Milanovićand then President Ivo Josipović. The protests escalated in May 2015 when a group of protesters breached the riot police cordons in Zagreb Upper Town and barricaded themselves inside St. Mark Church,where they again clashed with the police. At the same time another group of protesters near the central tent blocked the traffic and brought out gas bottles on Savska street which they apparently threatened to blow if the police refused to back off from the church. After both Josipovićand Milanovićlost the elections in 2014 and 2015,the protests gradually calmed down and in April 2016,with the new minister taking over the Veterans Office,the tent was dismantled,formally ending the protest.
Boris Milošević is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia between 2020 and 2022. He is a member of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS). He previously served as the president of the Serb National Council from July 2019 until July 2020.
The 2020 Zagreb shooting,commonly referred to as the St. Mark's Square attack,occurred on 12 October 2020 in Zagreb,Croatia,when 22-year-old Danijel Bezuk approached Banski dvori,which houses the office of the Prime Minister and serves as the meeting place of the government,on St. Mark's Square and started shooting at it with an assault rifle,wounding a police officer in the process. In the aftermath,the perpetrator ran off to a nearby neighborhood and committed suicide.
On 10 March 2022 at 23:01 CET,an unidentified Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-141 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed in Zagreb,the capital of Croatia. With an unidentified operator and unknown destination,the origin of the drone is presumed to be connected to military actions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The drone's flight over Croatia,Hungary and Romania prompted criticism of the defense systems as the UAV was detected but not cleared. In response,the Croatian government restricted airspace over populous cities and received military support from France and the United States who dispatched multiple fighter-jets to Croatia days later for joint exercises.
Ukraine and Russia have had hostile relations since 2014 Russian occupation of Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. In February 2022,a major escalation happened after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This article concerns influence of Russo-Ukrainian conflict on Croatians and Republic of Croatia.
