Operation MH
| Operation MH | |||||||||
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| Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia and Battle of Tetovo | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Macedonia | National Liberation Army | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Boris Trajkovski Pande Petrovski Ljube Boškoski |
Gëzim Ostreni Samidin Xhezairi Rahim Beqiri Hamdi Nëdrecaj | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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| Strength | |||||||||
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200+ soldiers and policemen 2+ T-55 tanks APCs 2 MI-24 helicopters | 300–700 militants | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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2 soldiers wounded 1 APC lightly damaged 1 policeman wounded | Unknown | ||||||||
| 20 Albanian civilians wounded | |||||||||
Operation MH (Macedonian: Операција МХ) was the first major offensive by the combined forces of the Macedonian Army and police forces in the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia. The goal of the operation was to dislodge the NLA forces which were entrenched in Tetovo and the hills and villages in its vicinity.