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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 Ukrainian insurgents were opposed by seventeen brigades of NKVD internal troops, numbering up to 1,500 soldiers. Soviet troops used heavy weapons, including reconnaissance tanks. From 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., NKVD troops, supported by guns, mortars, and tanks, made 22 attacks, which were repulsed by Ukrainian insurgents.
The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Революційна Повстанська Армія України, romanized: Revoliutsiina Povstanska Armiia Ukrainy), also known as Makhnovtsi (Ukrainian: Махновці), named after their founder Nestor Makhno, was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian peasants and workers during the Russian Civil War.
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 ...
The Biden administration has reportedly assembled a task force to determine how the CIA and other U.S. agencies could support a Ukrainian insurgency, should Russia launch a large-scale incursion.
On 13 August, Ukrainian guerillas set fire to a Russian military base near the destroyed Azovstal plant in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast. Local Ukrainian authorities reported losses among Russian troops and equipment, but didn't publish any further details. It was later reported that at least 10 Russian servicemen sustained injuries from the fire ...
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1942−1956) — a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and both the Polish Underground State and the Soviet-controlled post-World War II puppet state of the People's Republic of Poland.
The later organisation was the Ukrainian Insurgent Army belonging to Stepan Bandera's wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, which began operating in February 1943. Efforts were made in March 1943 to unify the two groups, but were unsuccessful, owing to the Banderites launching an insurgency against German occupational forces. [2]