Operation Faustschlag
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The Operation Faustschlag ("Operation Fist Punch"), also known as the Eleven Days' War,[1][2] was a Central Powers offensive in World War I. It was the last major offensive on the Eastern Front.
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Operation Faustschlag | ||||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War I | ||||||||
Austro-Hungarian troops enter Kamianets-Podilskyi, Western Ukraine with the city's iconic castle in the background | ||||||||
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Belligerents | ||||||||
Russian Republic | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
Leopold of Bavaria Max Hoffmann Erich von Falkenhayn Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli | Nikolai Krylenko | |||||||
Units involved | ||||||||
Ukrainian People's Army | Group of forces in battle with the counterrevolution in the South of Russia | |||||||
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53 divisions | Unknown |
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Russian forces were unable to put up any serious resistance due to the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. The armies of the Central Powers therefore captured huge territories in Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine, forcing the Bolshevik government of Russia to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.