Battle of Zhmerynka

Battle of Zhmerynka
Part of the Bolshevik–Ukrainian War during the Ukrainian War of the Independence in the Russian Civil War and the World War I
DateDecember 1917 – March 1918
Location
Result Ukrainian victory
Territorial
changes
Bolsheviks were defeated by the Ukrainian and the Austro–Hungarian forces and retreated from the Right–Bank Ukraine
Belligerents

1917:
link Ukrainian People's Republic
link Austro–Hungarian monarchy

1918:
link Ukrainian State
link Austro–Hungarian monarchy
link Bolsheviks
Commanders and leaders
link Pavlo Skoropadskyi link Sergey Kashevich 
link Pyotr Ptakhin 
Units involved

Ukrainian People's Army

Austro–Hungarian Army

  • Unknown Corps

Red Army

Strength
Unknown 200
Casualties and losses
Light Heavy

The Battle of Zhmerynka (December 1917 — March 1918) — battle between the Ukrainian People's Army, Austro-Hungarian forces and Red Army. A detachment of the Free Cossacks led by Pavlo Skoropadskyi from the 2nd Guard Corps of the Red Army took part in the battle. Pavlo Skoropadsky managed to drive the Bolsheviks out of Zhmerynka and force them to retreat from the Right Bank Ukraine, but on March 1 Bolsheviks took Kyiv.[1]