Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Shell from Polish–Ukrainian war 1918–1919 in Lviv, dated 5 January 1919. On June 8, 1919, the Ukrainian forces under the new command of Oleksander Hrekov, a former general in the Russian army, started a counter-offensive, and after three weeks advanced to Hnyla Lypa and the upper Stryi river, defeating five Polish divisions. Although the ...
The Ukrainian goal of the offensive was to push the Polish Army back to the Zolota Lypa River to improve the morale of the local Ukrainians and the UHA, as well as to provide a defensible area from which to mobilize a larger force and push the Poles back past Lviv (known as Lwów in Polish), Przemyśl, Chełm, Lublin and other territories claimed by the West Ukrainian People's Republic after 1 ...
In November of 1918 the Polish–Ukrainian War broke out between the newly established states of Poland and Ukraine. One of the main battles in the month took place in Lviv, Polish forces pushed out the Ukrainian Galician Army from the city, however the UGA began the siege of Lviv. [2] In February of 1919 the Ukrainians attempted to capture Lviv.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The Ukrainian War of Independence, also referred to as the Ukrainian–Soviet War in Ukraine, lasted from March 1917 to November 1921 and was part of the wider Russian Civil War. It saw the establishment and development of an independent Ukrainian republic , most of which was absorbed into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1919 ...
This is a list of wars between Piast Poland and Kievan Rus', from the 10th to the 13th century. Polish victory Kievan Rus' victory Another result* *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Piast Poland or Kievan Rus' in which the other intervened, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
Operation Mińsk was a military offensive of the Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War.It resulted in the capture of Minsk from the Red Army around 8 August 1919. The victory allowed the Polish troops to advance further into Russian-controlled Lithuania and Belarus and thus to present the Bolsheviks with a military fait accompli.
The army's transit to Poland in 1919 was facilitated by France. [48] Blue Army troops were mostly of Polish origin but included also international volunteers who had been under French command during World War I. In 1920, France was reluctant to aid Poland in Poland's war with Soviet Russia.