Wreaths were also laid by members of Homeland War associations.

Operation Flash began on May 1 and ended on May 3, 1995, involving about 7,200 Croatian soldiers and policemen who regained control of some 500 square kilometres of land in the Western Slavonia region after nearly four years of Serb occupation. Forty-two Croatian personnel were killed and 162 were wounded in the operation.

The liberation of Croatia's territory continued in August the same year with the military and police operation Storm, and three years later, on January 15, 1998, it was completed with the peaceful reintegration of the Danube River region.