The following year, the Bosniak-Croat war lasted, but with the signing of the Washington Agreement it was discontinued, and in March 1994 the transport of larger forces along VRS lines was made possible.
In addition to supplying basic resources, several log cabins were built for 4,000 fighters, as settlements were far away and operations planned for the winter of 1995 were supposed to occur during low temperatures.
A four-month ceasefire with the VRS was signed in late 1994, which was in favor of the liberation action, when the 7th Corps Command used that time to organize units and to provide additional training.
The plan of the operation was to attack the VRS on a broader front, practically the entire area of responsibility of the 7th Corps on the Vlašić plateau, and break out of the Smet – Gostilj – Vitovlje – Koric communication.
The start of the operation was marked by the undertaking of the Special Forces of the 712th and 737th Brigades, when two groups of about 400 fighters descended overnight on a 12-meter cliff on the Galica plateau and completely surprised the enemy in the morning of February 24, killing 62 VRS members.
However, in the first days, the main attack failed due to poor implementation during the installation of the bridge defenses, which was used by the aggressor to pull PATs whose operations caused losses to the 705th ARBiH Brigade.
Seeing that the Vlašić liberation plan had failed, the 7th Corps Command made additional preparations to conduct a new operation called "Range 1" (Bosnian: Domet 1).
The operation plan was to attack the VRS on a wider front, practically in the entire area of responsibility of the 7th Corps on the Vlašić plateau, and to break through the Smet-Gostilj-Vitovlje-Koric communication.
The beginning of the operation was marked by an attack by special units of the 712nd and 737th Brigades, when two groups of approximately 400 fighters descended overnight on a 12-meter cliff on the Galica plateau and completely surprised the enemy on the morning of February 24, killing 62 VRS members.
However, in the first days, the main attack failed due to poor conduct during the setting up of the bridge's defenses, which the enemy used to withdraw the PAT, whose operations caused losses to the 705th ARBiH Brigade.
They also believed that the ARBiH had erected a television tower on the 1,933-meter-high Paljenik peak on Mount Vlašić, but bad weather and UN restrictions on the movement of fighters prevented them from confirming this.
After the disappearance of the report and the impenetrable weather, fierce fighting lasted for days as Alagić's 7th Corps stormed the mountain, showered with blizzards of the late winter months and temperatures lower than −25 °C.
[2] The outcome of the battle for Mount Vlašić remained uncertain until April 4, when General Alagic announced that his troops were holding a victory celebration at its summit.
Nevertheless, Radio Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (RTV BiH) broadcast images of jubilant Bosniak troops splashing in deep snow on top of the mountain, celebrating one of ARBiH's signal victories in the war.
The conquest of the summit was astonishing evidence of the improvement of the army and gave a huge boost to the morale of the government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
UN military observers and Western journalists reported on better-equipped ARBiH units now going out into the field, with their soldiers carrying appropriate small arms and ammunition, jackets, helmets and radios.
ARBiH was not yet equal to the VRS in terms of armaments, operational planning and execution on the battlefield, but the gap in capabilities between the two sides narrowed dramatically compared to the first days in early 1992.
Members of the women's association "Sumeja" brought to the fighters, in the positions themselves, hot food, clothes, shoes, sunglasses against snow blindness, etc.
The Vlašić victory triggered all segments of the Bosnian society and gave the unprecedented motive to move decisively towards the preparation of a series of new liberation operations.