Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine

Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
Date13–18 March 1939 (1939-03-13 – 1939-03-18)
Location
Result Hungarian occupation and annexation
Belligerents
Invading:
 Hungary
Supported by:
 Poland
 Germany
Defending:
 Carpatho-Ukraine
 Czechoslovakia (until 16th March)
Suppressing the Sich:
 Czechoslovakia
Commanders and leaders
Miklós Horthy
András Littay
Ferenc Szombathelyi
Miklós Kozma
Avgustyn Voloshyn
Dmytro Kłympusz
Mychajło Kołodzinskyj 
Zenon Kossak 
Oleg Svátek
Lev Prchala
Bohumil Mařík
Lev Prchala
Oleg Svátek
Units involved
Carpathian Group[1]
Irregular troops
12th Division[1]
Border Security (StOS)[1]
Carpathian Sich[1]
Strength
> 25,000[2]
Other estimates:
18,000[1]
500 guns
50 tanks
15 aircraft
± 8,000[2]
Other estimates:
2,700 (Czechoslovak)[1]
1,500 (Ukrainian)[1]
6 light tanks LT-35 (Czechoslovak)
4 armored vehicles OA vz.30 (Czechoslovak)
Casualties and losses
72 deaths, 164 wounded, 3 missing and 2 prisoners (official Hungarian statistics)[3]
± 200 killed and several hundred wounded (Czechoslovak and Ukrainian estimates)[3]
1,500 killed and wounded[4]
4,500 ukrainian civilians dead[5]

The Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine was a 1939 military conflict between the Kingdom of Hungary and Carpatho-Ukraine. During the invasion a series of clashes took place between the Hungarian and Polish troops against the paramilitary formations of the Carpathian Sich of Carpathian Ukraine and some Czech troops who remained in the region after the Czechoslovak army was disbanded. The war ended with the occupation and subsequent annexation of the territory of Transcarpathian Ukraine (Subcarpathian Rus') to the Kingdom of Hungary.[6]

This territory was later invaded by the Soviet Union and integrated into its Ukrainian SSR.

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  2. ^ a b "Bitva na Krásném poli". Zakarpatí.cz (in Czech). 2008-07-16. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  3. ^ a b "Опір у Карпатах. Як закарпатці боронилися від угорської агресії в 1939 році" [Resistance in the Carpathians. How Transcarpathians defended the Hungarian aggression in 1939]. Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  4. ^ Časopis ATM číslo 7/2009: Jan Máče: Ústup z Karpatské Ukrajiny, str. 75
  5. ^ Сьогодні - 80-річчя з дня проголошення Карпатської Украины
  6. ^ "Ющенко помолився в Хусті за героїв Карпатської України". Новини NEWSru.ua. 14 March 2009. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017.