RTS was active during the Kosovo War and the concurrent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. On 8 April 1999, the spokesman for NATO Headquarters, Air Commodore David Wilby, warned that RTS would be bombed unless it broadcast six hours of Western television coverage of the Kosovo War each day; RTS refused to comply. On 20 April, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Wesley Clark, ordered that RTS was to be bombed off the air. NATO missiles struck RTS at 2:06 a.m on 23 April. Serbia's Minister of Information, Aleksandar Vučić, scheduled to appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" from RTS's headquarters at 2:30 a.m., narrowly escaped the bombing. Sixteen RTS employees were killed and an additional 16 were injured. The human rights organization Amnesty International condemned the attack and described it as a war crime. NATO officials stated that the alliance considered RTS a legitimate target because of its "biased and distorted coverage" of the war. The bombing temporarily forced RTS off the air, but it resumed broadcasting several hours later, and continued to do so for the rest of the conflict.