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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 ...
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.
It also held Horodok and defended the Lviv-Przemyśl railway line from Ukrainian forces. [10] On 25 February 1919, the regiment was renamed the 37th Infantry Regiment. In the spring of 1919, the regiment captured Sambir and Drohobych and participated in the conquest of Stanyslaviv. From 13 to 16 June 1919, it defended crossings over the ...
In late June 1919, the regiment began fighting in the Polish–Ukrainian War. The uhlans clashed with the enemy in several locations of former Austrian Galicia.On July 11–13, 1919 near Yazlovets in Eastern Galicia, the regiment defeated Ukrainian forces, successfully defending the local convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Chortkiv offensive (Ukrainian: Чортківська офензива, Чортків, Polish: Ofensywa czortkowska, Czortków; 7–28 June 1919) also known as the June offensive, was one of the most successful counteroffensive military operations of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) against the Polish Army during the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1918–1919.
The camps of internees in Kalisz and Szczypiorno were after Warsaw the second cell of life of Ukrainian emigration in Poland. The number of soldiers in internment camps diminished constantly: with departure to Czechoslovakia, in particular for university, to France for labour and similar. After liquidation of internment camps, the former ...
Finally, on 2 January 1919, Antonov-Ovseenko made a decision on his own to start the march to Kharkiv, having learned that the last German units were withdrawing from the city and that the Bolshevik workers' units were getting ready to start an armed uprising. [17] On 3 January 1919, the 1st Ukrainian Soviet Division entered Kharkiv. [13]
The Battle of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) (in Polish historiography called obrona Lwowa, the Defense of Lwów [2]) took place from November 1918 to May 1919 and was a six-month long conflict in the region of Galicia following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.