Defence Minister and Chief of the General Staff visit flooded areas

in Slavonia (the villages of Drenovci and Posavski Podgajci and the town of Županja), visited also by the Prime Minister Zoran Milanović.
Minister Kotromanović stated that the Croatian Armed Forces were investing maximal efforts to assist the flooded areas and the population “Croatian Armed Forces are in the field for 24 hours a day, and we shall develop an operation plan for the clean-up after the waters recede”. Minister also said that a humanitarian campaign has been launched at the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces level intended for the residents of the hardest stricken  areas.
General Lovrić stated that during the day the last 15 residents of Gunja and 5 residents of Rajevo Selo were evacuated. “We are presently evacuating 30 persons from Rajevo Selo, and will make sure that no person is left unattended.”

General Lovrić also emphasised that the Armed Forces had the necessary assets for assistance at their disposal – the amphibious and other vehicles, boats and helicopters, and that they were to continue evacuating residents and the cattle. The Croatian Armed Forces members, said General Lovrić, were ready to respond to any kind of task assigned to them at any time and that they were to assist with the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the ground in the flood-stricken villages after the waters recede.

As many as 1064 members of the Croatian Armed Forces are out in the field in Slavonia at the moment – in Slavonski Šamac some 118 of them, equipped with 6 motor vehicles, 106 more in Slavonski Brod, with 10 vehicles and three boats; eight soldiers are in Županja to search the embankment for seepage, and 20 engaged in the Emergency Operations Centre respectively.
They are also engaged in filling the sandbags and searching the embankment in the villages of Drenovci (40 soldiers), of Posavski Podgajci (20 soldiers); Babina Greda (five soldiers) and Gunja (32 soldiers evacuating the residents and their cattle and reinforcing and rehabilitating the embankments).
Furthermore, two helicopters of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence conducted reconnaissance of the flooded areas in the Vukovar-Srijem County between Županja and Gunja, and three mobile kitchens are in place in the Županja surroundings and one water tanker for drinking water supply is in the Okučani municipality in Western Slavonia. 
Similarly, two cargo vehicles of the Croatian Armed Forces transported the Red Cross’s humanitarian assistance from Zagreb to Vinkovci, and a trailer delivered 15 000 l of bottled water from the Support Command’s Headquarters at Velika Buna to the „Bosut“ Barracks in Vinkovci.