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Posing as Ukrainian insurgents, these special formations used violence against the civilian population of Western Ukraine. In June 1945 there were 156 such special groups with 1,783 members. [119] [better source needed] From December 1945 to 1946, 15,562 operations were carried out in which 4,200 were killed and more than 9,400 were arrested.
The 1st Ukrainian Front allocated one cavalry division, reinforced by 20 armoured vehicles and eight tanks to fight the insurgents in March of that year. A battalion garrison was stationed in each district, and NKVD Internal Troops regiments were stationed in regional centers. In total, more than 30,000 NKVD soldiers were sent to fight the UPA.
[73] [74] Another factor that had caused the counteroffensive to be delayed was the 2022–2023 Pentagon document leaks, in which sensitive US intelligence regarding the Ukrainian military was leaked by April, causing Ukraine to alter some of their military plans as a result. However, Ukrainian officials have disregarded the leaks and stated ...
Ukrainian POWs elsewhere in the colony told the U.N. investigators that the Grad fire muffled sounds of the bigger explosions. Dmytryk’s memories then turn apocalyptic. His body burned with ...
Vasyl Kuk in his interview to Oleksandr Gogun stated that the UPA lost no more than 100 people, while the insurgents killed 1700 Soviet soldiers and wounded the same number of others. [7] According to other data, the losses of Soviet troops totalled 120 people, Ukrainian insurgents – 80 [8] plus Wehrmacht casualties, who support the ...
The CIA is overseeing a secret training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel. CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central ...
President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top Ukrainian officials have demanded that Russia be held responsible and its soldiers punished over a video that purportedly shows a Ukrainian prisoner of ...
Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets denied that Ukrainian forces had killed Russian prisoners of war, saying that the Russian soldiers committed an act of perfidy. [6] He said that Russian soldiers had fired while the prisoners were turning themselves in. [1] On 20 November, the deputy prime minister Olha Stefanishyna promised to launch an ...