June 28th, clipping her wings

[Betonov]

During the night a lot of Yugoslav (JNA) soldiers surrendered or deserted to Slovenian troops (TO). Border Crossings were still in JNA hands, but were all surrounded. Relief forces were moving slow as they were constantly harrased by TO ambushes, angry civilians and baricades after baricades.


JNA tank breaking a baricade and JNA soldiers surendering

6:45 TO forces suround Holmec border crossing (Slovenia-Austria) and border post. At 8:00 TO begins to retake the crossing and after almost 3 hours it falls to TO forces. 91 JNA soldiers are taken prisoner. One JNA soldier is shot by his own officer after he wishes to surrender. Also 3 JNA soldiers are kiled in front of a news team while carrying a white flag. From which side the shots came we still don't know. 10:45 Holmec is in TO hands.


Holmec border crossing

Slovenias biggest international airport, Brnik, is still in TO hands and surounded by JNA tanks. 10:30 JNA jets attack the airport to destroy the fleet of Slovenias only airline company, to clip the countries wings. The missiles also hit the parking-lot, killing two Austrian reporters. The damage to the airport was minimal. The world started to symphatize with Slovenia as attacks on civil aviation is considered an act of terrorism.


Brnik airport

During the entire dayJNA jets continued to bomb baricades, constructed from trucks, to help the ground troops break trough. Because most truckers refused to leave their trucks (most truck were un-volunteraly used in the baricades) as they were worried about the safety of the cargo, the death toll with truckers exceded the death toll of combatants on both sides combined.
A legend of the war, major Lisjak, managed to retake Rozna Dolina (Slovenia-Italy) border crossing, destroying 3 tanks and taking 93 prisoners. 5 tanks captured were quickly redeployed into TO forces.


Rozna Dolina, burning tanks and captives

JNA forces managed to take Gornja Radgona (border town with Austria) and attack civilian targets. Local civilians use molotovs to destroy suply trucks. Before the evening the entire JNA unit surendered. Most other border crossings were still in JNA hands and cut off. Suplies and reinforcements were airlifted using red cross helicopters (a violation of international law). TO forces created killing fields from landing sites.
President Kucan flew to Zagreb (Croatia) for talks with the European community. Yugoslav national assemby had a meeting with the generals (only the asembly could vote for a total mobilisation). Generals needed the full might of JNA to crush Slovenia. The vote never came. The Yugoslav president Millosevich had different plans.