International recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina results in the official withdrawal of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) from the republic's territory, although their Bosnian Serb members merely join the Army of Republika Srpska.

Armed and equipped from JNA stockpiles in Bosnia, supported by volunteers and various paramilitary forces from Serbia, and receiving extensive humanitarian, logistical and financial support from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Republika Srpska's offensives in 1992 manage to place much of the country under its control.

Rebel Serbs shell Dubrovnik in July 1992.