On Thursday 8 August, a delegation from EUFOR lead by the Chief of Staff, Brigadier General László Szabó met with Ankica Tomić, the Head of the International Cooperation Department and representatives of BiH’s Law Enforcement Agencies and airports to discuss plans for Exercise Quick Response 19. The exercise, which occurs […]

EUFOR’s Joint Military Affairs (JMA) department organised a demonstration of the AFBiH demining battalion for a delegation from the European Union Staff Group (EUSG) at Olovo on Wednesday 24 Jul. Colonel Marek Golan who headed the visitors from the EUSG was welcomed to the demining site at Olovo by Major […]

The area around Skakavac waterfall echoed to the sound of a EUFOR Agusta Bell 212, carrying out winching operations with the Federal Administration of Civil Protection (CPA), on Wednesday 17 July. Training was carried out for three rescue scenarios: a climber stuck on a cliff, a hiker with a broken […]

Major General Reinhard Trischak was invited by Major General Radovan Ilić, the Operation Command Commander for AFBiH, to attend a live artillery firing exercise at Manjaca on Saturday 6 July. Watching the artillery from an observation post Major General Ilić described the finer details of the event to Major General […]

At the locations of the barracks “Kozara” and the military warehouse “Krcmarica” ​​in Banja Luka, members of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska (RS) conducted a joint exercise “Sadejstvo 2019” today. According to the defined scenario, members of the 1st […]

On the request of Military Police of Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, paid to COM EUFOR, International Military Police Detachment conducted training for members of Military Police of AF BiH who are preparing for their deployment to Afghanistan. The exercises took place in Camp BUTMIR from 23 to 25 […]

The sound of an explosion rocked the abandoned Olympic hotel on Mount Igman, then as smoke billowed from the empty windows, voices screaming in panic cut through the warning sirens; thankfully this was all part of a training exercise with Red Cross volunteers playing the part of injured teenagers on […]

A demonstration rescue exercise showing capabilities of answering on natural disasters took place on Sunday on Igman Mountain, located 30 kilometres southwest of the capital Sarajevo. In the devastated hotel on Igman Mountain, 57 members of Union of Mountain Rescue Services in BiH (GSSuBiH), members of European Union Force BiH […]

Helicopter and live firing on the rifle ranges gave the Austrian and Turkish soldiers of EUFOR’s Multinational Battalion (MNBN) a busy week during 18-22 March. Regular training provides all soldiers with the confidence and ability to respond to a wide variety of situations; during a busy week of training, the […]

Despite the cold, misty conditions, the snowy peak of Trebević Mountain was the venue for specialist, emergency training on Wednesday 6 February for the Gorska Služba Spašavanja (GSS – Mountain Rescue Service) Trebević, and the Multi National Battalion (MNBN) from EUFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR BiH) on Wednesday 6 […]