| First Winter Campaign | ||||||||
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| Part of the Soviet–Ukrainian War | ||||||||
 Ukrainian fighters before the start of the military winter campaign, December 1919 | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
.svg){kind=small} Ukrainian People’s Republic Poland |
.svg){kind=small} Russian SFSR .svg){kind=small} Ukrainian SSR |
 South Russia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Symon Petliura Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko Volodymyr Salsky Yuriy Tyutyunnyk Marko Bezruchko Petro Dyachenko Andriy Dolud |
Mikhail Tukhachevsky Sergey Mezheninov Aleksandr Yegorov Kliment Voroshilov Semyon Budyonny Ieronim Uborevich Iona Yakir |
Anton Denikin Nikolay Shilling Yakov Slaschyev | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| 4,769[1] | 50,000–65,000[2][better source needed][dubious – discuss] | 7,000[a] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| 681 killed[1] | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The First Winter Campaign (Ukrainian: Перший Зимовий Похід; 6 December 1919 — 6 May 1920) was a campaign by the Ukrainian People's Republic against the Bolsheviks in Ukraine during the Soviet-Ukrainian War. The main task of the Winter Campaign was to maintain the presence of the Ukrainian People's Army (UPA) in Ukrainian territory against the enemies, through guerrilla action. At the end of November 1919, the remnants of the Ukrainian forces were surrounded (Lyubar-Chortoria-Myropil). The Ukrainian Galician Army, due to Petliura's agreement with the Second Polish Republic, was forced to join General Anton Denikin's Russian Volunteer Army after 6 November 1919. The Ukrainian People's Army troops were surrounded by three enemy armies — the Red Army, Russian Volunteer Army and Polish Army (with which reconciliation was achieved at that time); in addition, Ukrainian units suffered from the typhus epidemic. On 6 December 1919, at a military meeting in Nova Chortoria, it was finally decided to carry out a Winter Campaign by units of the UPR and the rear of the Volunteer Army. About 5,000 Ukrainians and 35,000–60,000 Poles took part in the campaign against the Red and Volunteer Armies.[4] However, the composition of the Ukrainian combat-ready units numbered 2,000 bayonets, 1,000 sabers and 14 guns.
- ^ a b Wayback Machine. Anatoliy Buravchenkov, “First Winter Campaign of the Ukrainian Army 1919–1920”. 7 August 2016.
- ^ likbez.org.ua. Andriy Matskiv, “6 December in our military history”. 8 December 2017.
- ^ Savchenko 2006.
- ^ "Ukrainian Intelligence Officer Ivan Lytvynenko". SZRU. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
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