A few days before Lukavac '93, Bosnian Muslim militias successfully occupied Trnovo and surrounding mountain ranges which cut communications between Serbian Herzegovina and the rest of Republika Srpska.

After Operation Cerska '93, the VRS recaptured most of its lost lands east of Sarajevo, and besieged Žepa and Srebrenica.

However, immediately after the start and successful implementation of the offensive actions of the VRS, the General Staff of the ARBiH sent elements of the 7th Muslim and 17th Krajina Brigades as reinforcements, jointly with a group of troops from the entire First Corps of the ARBiH with the strength of one brigade, making the number grow up to 13,000.

The Serbs later kept advancing west and reached Igman and Bjelašnica at the beginning of August.

The operation was called off with the capture of the Rogoj and Grebak passes, strengthening even more communications between the two parts of Serbian-controlled Republika Srpska.