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Russia agreed to recognize the previous UPR treaty, to sign a peace treaty with Ukraine, and to define the Russian/Ukrainian border. [8] On 13 March, Ukrainian troops and the Austro-Hungarian Army secured Odesa. [9] The Ukrainian People's Army took control of the Donets Basin, [10] and Crimea was cleared of Bolshevik forces in April 1918.
The Occupation of Kharkiv was the first episode of the Ukrainian–Soviet War, during which on 23 December 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks seized the Ukrainian city Kharkiv and installed Soviet power there. The Ukrainian authorities failed to expel the Bolsheviks and the last Ukrainian regiments in the city were disarmed on 10 January 1918.
The Bolshevik forces were disarmed and sent to Russia. Other units were disarmed in ten cities of Ukraine. In four more cities, local councils were dissolved for preparing for the uprising. [3] The independent policy of the Central Rada and its opposition to the Bolsheviks strained relations with the leadership of Soviet Russia.
Upon the outbreak of World War I, Ukraine was not an independent political entity or state.The majority of the territory that makes up the modern country of Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire with a notable far western region administered by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the border between them dating to the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The Ukrainian–Soviet War [1] (Ukrainian: радянсько-українська війна, romanized: radiansko-ukrainska viina) is the term commonly used in post-Soviet Ukraine for the events taking place between 1917 and 1921, nowadays regarded essentially as a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks (Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR).
As the Bolsheviks sought to expand their influence across the former territories of the Russian Empire, Ukraine became a significant battleground. In December 1917, amidst the chaos of the Russian Revolution and the collapse of imperial power, the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets was proclaimed. This was a direct challenge to the ...
A series of photographs illustrates the destruction of war after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
In August 1917, the Ukrainian Central Council and Russian Provisional Government reached an agreement on the position of the Russia–Ukraine border, which placed Katerynoslav within the territory of the Russian Republic, a decision which was rejected by the province's anarchist movement. [27]