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The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія, УПА, romanized: Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists on 14 October 1942. [1]
The anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya, UPA) was a guerrilla war waged by Ukrainian nationalist partisan formations against the Soviet Union in the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR and southwestern regions of the Byelorussian SSR, during and after World War II.
"Ukrainian partisans killed about fifty thousand Volhynian Poles and forced tens of thousands more to flee in 1943." [1] Timothy Snyder >40k: 10k — — — >40k in July '43, 10k is in March '44. [2] Timothy Snyder: 40-60k: 25k — 5k — "UPA killed forty to sixty thousand Polish Civilians in Volhynia in 1943."
Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army (Ukrainian: Українська народно-революційна армія, romanized: Ukrayinska narodno-revoliutsiina armiia), also known as the Polissian Sich (Ukrainian: Поліська Січ, romanized: Poliska Sich) or the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, was a paramilitary formation of Ukrainian nationalists, nominally proclaimed in Olevsk region ...
UPA-North was established in 1943, alongside the Western and Southern operational groups. A fourth group, the Eastern Operational Group , was conceived but never formally established. [1] Prior to the creation of UPA-North, there had already been two organisations known as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army operating in Volhynia and Polesia.
UPA-West was established in December 1943 as one of the UPA's three operational groups, alongside UPA-South and UPA-North. A fourth operational group, UPA-East , was planned but never realised. [1] UPA-West was formed as a successor to the Ukrainian People's Self-Defence (UNS), a unit of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950) was a Ukrainian nationalist [1] and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against ...
Publishing primary source, archival material and documents, and first person accounts that relate to the military history of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army UPA, underground resistance organizations, as well as the history of Ukraine during World War II and post-war decade. Each volume or group of volumes is devoted to a specific theme.