| Battle of Vilya | |||||||
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| Part of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia and the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict during World War II | |||||||
 Kostopol district | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Home Army.svg){kind=small} Soviet partisans |
 Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army(Polesian Sich) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Władysław Kochański Zdzisław Ostromęcki † Franciszek Szafran |
Petro Dolmatyuk Ivan Mitrynga † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 18 or 23 killed, 2 wounded | 8 Killed, 15 Wounded | ||||||
The Battle of Vilya was an armed clash that took place on 6 September 1943 in the village of Vilya in Volhynia, between a detachment of the Home Army and a group of Soviet partisans made up of Poles and a detachment of the Polesian Sich.[2][1]
- ^ a b Siemaszko & Siemaszko 2000, pp. 279–280.
- ^ Grzegorz 2011, p. 303.