Battle of the Strypa River

Battle of the Strypa River
Part of The Eastern Front of World War I
Russian troops advance in the forest near Okana during the battle of Strypa
Date 27 December–26 January [O.S. 14 December–13 January] 1915-1916 Location Strypa river, Austria-Hungary (Modern day Ukraine) Result Central Powers victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire	German Empire  Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Dmitry Shcherbachev Platon Lechitsky	Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin Felix Graf von Bothmer
Units involved
7th army 9th army	7th army Army of the Bug Bavarian Corps
Strength
480,000	450,000
Casualties and losses
46,803	Unknown, but less

The Battle of the Strypa (Kampf auf der Strype) or Operation on Strypa (Операция на Стрыпе) was there was a Russian offensive from December 14, 1915, to January 13, 1916, in Galicia near the Strypa river and ended with the victory of the central powers.