Kijevo is a village and municipality in Dalmatia, southeast of Knin in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia.
[4] Kijevo is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.
[7] On January 27, 1943, Kijevo was attacked by Chetniks at a time when there was no military defence in the town, resulting in the deaths of 45 civilians.
[7] Kijevo gained infamy during the Croatian War of Independence in 1990 and 1991 when it became the site of the 1991 siege of Kijevo, which involved the Yugoslav People's Army under Ratko Mladić and the forces of SAO Krajina under Milan Martić who encircled the Croat-inhabited village, defended by an isolated outpost of the Croatian Police.
By the end of the year, the enclave was attacked and overrun and the bulk of the population left after the artillery had destroyed much of their settlements.