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mo4ch:>US doctor recalls ‘horrific night’ NATO bombs fell on Belgrade as he performed heart surgery on baby | Mo4ch News

Published time: 25 Mar, 2019 02:17 A US surgeon who was operating on a small child in Belgrade in the spring of 1999 when NATO bombs began falling on the city has told RT that he’d never experienced anything of “such magnitude.”Doctor William Novick recalled how he and his team of American medics had come to what was then Yugoslavia before the NATO campaign. They thought they would be safe in the capital but “misjudged what was going to happen.”“We were asked by the US embassy in Belgrade on the previous weekend to evacuate with them,” he said. But the medics took a vote and decided to stay in the beleaguered city, as they had two children in their care that were in urgent need of an operation.Also on rt.com‘Forgive, but not forget’: Serbia won’t be in NATO, leaders say 20yrs after Yugoslavia bombingNovick was performing heart surgery on a 10-day-old baby on March 24 of that year “when the air raid signals started going off not long after sundown, and the bombs started dropping within …