Polish–Ukrainian War
1918-19 conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic).
Polish–Ukrainian War | |||||||||
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Part of the Ukrainian War of Independence and the Aftermath of World War I | |||||||||
The map showing breaking the siege of Lviv (Lwów) by Poles (November 1918) and the Polish border at the Zbruch (Zbrucz) River by the war's end, with Eastern Galicia (shown in blue) under the Polish control. | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Regional support: Strategic support: France |
West Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian People's Republic Hutsul Republic (in Maramureș) Komancza Republic (in Lemkivshchyna until January 1919) Ukrainian Bukovina (in Bukovina, 6–11 November 1919) | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Józef Piłsudski Józef Haller Wacław Iwaszkiewicz Edward Rydz-Śmigły |
Yevhen Petrushevych Oleksander Hrekov Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko Omelyan Popovych [uk] | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Polish forces: 190,000 Romanian forces: 4,000 Hungarian forces: 620+ |
West Ukrainian forces: 70,000–75,000[2] or over 100,000[3] UPR forces: 35,000 Hutsul forces: 1,100 Komancza forces: 800 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
10,000 | 15,000 |
The conflict had its roots in ethnic, cultural, and political differences between the Polish and Ukrainian populations living in the region, as Poland and both Ukrainian republics were successor states to the dissolved Russian and Austrian empires.
The war started in Eastern Galicia after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and spilled over into the Kholm (Chełm) and Volhynia (Wołyń) regions formerly belonging to the Russian Empire.
Poland reoccupied the disputed territory on 18 July 1919.