Battle of Raduša

Battle of Raduša
	Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
	; Ruins of a train station destroyed after the battle in Raduša
Date	20 June – 13 August 2001
Location	Raduša, Saraj, Macedonia
Result	See aftermath
Belligerents
Macedonia	National Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Boris Trajkovski; Vlado Bučkovski; Pande Petrovski; Ljube Boškoski; Strašo Gligorov; Risto Galevski; Aco Stojanovski	Rafiz Aliti; Emrush Suma
Units involved
Macedonian Army; Macedonian Police; "Tigar" Special Police Unit; Macedonian Air force	115th Brigade
Strength
70 policemen and soldiers (initially); 700 soldiers (August); 1 T-55 tank; (Start of battle); Mi-24 gunship; 1 Su-25	200 insurgents (August)
Casualties and losses
Unknown ; 1 T-55 tank lost; 2 APC's lost	Unknown
	5 Macedonian workers kidnapped and tortured by NLA

The battle of Raduša was part of the wider inter-ethnic conflict known as the Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia between the Albanian NLA and Macedonian security forces concentrated near the border with Kosovo. The brunt of the fighting happened near the village of Raduša and Bojane villages that guard the roads to the Rašče water supply which supplies water to the capital city of Skopje.

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