List of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic

This is a list of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic. The battles conducted by the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR, UNR) were part of a complex of simultaneously fought wars at the tail of World War I, including the Ukrainian War of Independence, the Russian Civil War, the Ukrainian–Soviet War, the Polish–Ukrainian War (primarily conducted by its ally, the West Ukrainian People's Republic and its Ukrainian Galician Army), and the Polish–Soviet War (in which the UPR was allied with the Second Polish Republic).

Dates are in New Style, unless stated otherwise.

Date Battle Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
8–13 November 1917 Kiev Bolshevik Uprising[1] Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Bolshevik Revkom Kiev
 Ukrainian People's Republic
Kiev Military District Bolshevik–
UPR victory
30 November – 1 December 1917 Odesa Arsenal November Uprising[2]  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Red Guards UPR victory
11 – 12 December 1917 Kiev November uprising (1917)[3]  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Bolshevik Revkom Kiev UPR victory
19 December 1917 – 10 January 1918 Occupation of Kharkiv (1917)  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia
 Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
Soviet victory
25 December 1917 – 2 January 1918 Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising  Ukrainian People's Republic  Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets Soviet victory
End December 1917 – March 1918 Battle of Zhmerynka  Ukrainian People's Republic
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia UPR–AH victory
9–11 January 1918 Ekaterinoslav Bolshevik uprising  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Bolshevik Revkom Yekaterinoslav Bolshevik victory
27 – 30 January 1918 Odessa Bolshevik uprising  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Bolshevik Rumcherod Bolshevik victory
29 or 30 January 1918 Battle of Kruty  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia UPR victory
29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918 Kiev Arsenal January Uprising  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Bolshevik Red Guards UPR victory
19 January 1918 — 20 January 1919 Occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia Soviet victory
5–8 February 1918 Battle of Kiev (1918)  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia Soviet victory
18 February – 3 March 1918 Operation Faustschlag  German Empire
 Austria-Hungary
 Ukrainian People's Republic
 Russian Soviet Republic
 Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
German–AH–
UPR victory
13–25 April 1918 Crimea Operation (1918)  German Empire
 Ukrainian People's Republic
Crimean People's Republic
Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic German–UPR
–Crimean victory
29–30 April 1918 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état[4]  Ukrainian People's Republic Hetmanate movement [uk]
 German Empire
Hetmanate victory
16 November – 15 December 1918 Anti-Hetman Uprising  Ukrainian People's Republic  Ukrainian State UPR victory
18 November 1918 Battle of Motovilivka  Ukrainian People's Republic Hetmanate movement [uk] UPR victory
18 November 1918 – March 1919 Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 Russian State (1918–1920)
Estonia
 Latvia
Lithuania
Belarusian Democratic Republic
Second Polish Republic Second Polish Republic
 Kingdom of Romania
Ukrainian People's Republic
 French Third Republic
 United Kingdom
Ober Ost
Finnish, Danish,
and Swedish volunteers[6]
 Russian SFSR
Soviet Estonia
Soviet Latvia
Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR
Provisional Polish Rewkom
Ukrainian SSR
Finnish Red Guards[7]
Soviet victory in
Eastern Belorussia

Soviet defeat in
the Baltic states and
Western Belorussia


Start of the
Polish–Soviet War

2 January – 31 August 1919 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine Nationalists

White movement & Allies

Soviets

Communist partisans

Soviet defeat

Hryhoriv and
Makhnov partisans
rebel against
Soviet command


Whites with Allied help
win in the Donbas,
capture Kiev and
advance on Moscow


Poland occupies
Volhynia and Galicia

7 January – 1 February 1919 Khotyn Uprising Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian and
Moldovan insurgents

Supported by:

  • Russian Empire Committee for the
    Salvation of Bessarabia
  • Russian Empire Volunteer Army
    (logistical support)

 Ukrainian People's Republic

Romania Kingdom of Romania Romanian victory
18 January – 5 February 1919 Battle of Kiev (January 1919)  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian SFSR Soviet victory
31 August 1919 Capture of Kiev by the White Army  Ukrainian People's Republic

 Russian SFSR
 Ukrainian SSR

South Russia (White Army) AFSR victory
6 December 1919 – 6 May 1920 First Winter Campaign  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR

South Russia

UPR victory
25 April – July 1920 Kiev offensive (1920)  Second Polish Republic
 Ukrainian People's Republic
Russian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR
Soviet victory
12–25 August 1920 Battle of Warsaw (1920)  Second Polish Republic
 Ukrainian People's Republic[8]
Russian SFSR
 Byelorussian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
Polish victory
October – November 1921 Second Winter Campaign  Ukrainian People's Republic Russian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR
Soviet victory

Notes

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  1. ^ Though the Weimar Republic was uninvolved in the conflict, German soldiers present in Ukraine following the end of World War I intervened to prevent the Directorate from taking Kyiv.
  2. ^ Allied with the Bolsheviks until February, when it rebelled.
  3. ^ Part of the 3rd Ukrainian Soviet Army until May, when it launched an anti-Bolshevik uprising in Kherson.
  4. ^ Part of the 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Army until June, when it resigned its position.

References

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  1. ^ Kovalchuk, M. Unfortunate October: Bolshevik Uprising attempt in Kiev in 1917 (Невдалий Жовтень: спроба більшовицького повстання в Києві у 1917-му). Ukrayinska Pravda (Istorychna Pravda). 5 September 2012
  2. ^ "Военная литература --[ Военная история ]-- Савченко В. А. Двенадцать войн за Украину". militera.lib.ru. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Перший український козацький полк імені гетьмана Богдана Хмельницького :: Товариство учасників бойових дій "Спас-Україна"". www.spas.net.ua. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  4. ^ Shurkhalo, Dmytro (29 April 2018). "100-ліття гетьманського перевороту: як Скоропадський прийшов до влади" [100th anniversary of the Hetman's coup: how Skoropadskyi came to power]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  5. ^ Shurkhalo, Dmytro (4 November 2018). "Нестор Махно: самородок, військові таланти якого годі пояснити" [Nestor Makhno: gold, with military talents that cannot be explained]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  6. ^ Per Finsted. "Boganmeldelse: For Dannebrogs Ære - Danske frivillige i Estlands og Letlands frihedskamp 1919 af Niels Jensen". chakoten.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  7. ^ Thomas, Nigel; Boltowsky, Toomas (2019). Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 9781472830791.
  8. ^ "Європа повинна пам'ятати: вояки УНР у 1920 році рятували її від комунізму". Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.