Likewise, the Croatian and Bosnian leaderships signed a mutual defence treaty—the Split Agreement.[24] The siege ended with Operation Storm on 4–5 August 1995 conjoined with Bosnian forces under General Atif Dudaković.[1] Dudaković said: "We needed Operation Storm as much as Croatia did".[25] After the end of siege, food supplies and medical aid started arriving in the area from Bosnia and Croatia, which normalized the lives of the people living there.