List of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic

This is a list of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic. The battles conducted by the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR, UNR) were part of a complex of simultaneously fought wars at the tail of World War I, including the Ukrainian War of Independence, the Russian Civil War, the Ukrainian–Soviet War, the Polish–Ukrainian War (primarily conducted by its ally, the West Ukrainian People's Republic and its Ukrainian Galician Army), and the Polish–Soviet War (in which the UPR was allied with the Second Polish Republic).

Dates are in New Style, unless stated otherwise.

Date Battle Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result 8–13 November 1917 Kiev Bolshevik UprisingKovalchuk, M. Unfortunate October: Bolshevik Uprising attempt in Kiev in 1917 (Невдалий Жовтень: спроба більшовицького повстання в Києві у 1917-му). Ukrayinska Pravda (Istorychna Pravda). 5 September 2012 Bolshevik Revkom Kiev Kiev Military DistrictBolshevik–UPR victory 30 November – 1 December 1917 Odesa Arsenal November Uprising Red GuardsUPR victory 11 – 12 December 1917 Kiev November uprising (1917) Bolshevik Revkom KievUPR victory 19 December 1917 – 10 January 1918 Occupation of Kharkiv (1917) Soviet RussiaSoviet victory 25 December 1917 – 2 January 1918 Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising Soviet victory End December 1917 – March 1918 Battle of Zhmerynka Austria-Hungary Soviet RussiaUPR–AH victory 9–11 January 1918 Ekaterinoslav Bolshevik uprising Bolshevik Revkom YekaterinoslavBolshevik victory 27 – 30 January 1918 Odessa Bolshevik uprising Bolshevik RumcherodBolshevik victory 29 or 30 January 1918 Battle of Kruty Soviet RussiaUPR victory 29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918 Kiev Arsenal January Uprising Bolshevik Red GuardsUPR victory 19 January 1918 — 20 January 1919 Occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks Soviet RussiaSoviet victory 5–8 February 1918 Battle of Kiev (1918) Soviet RussiaSoviet victory 18 February – 3 March 1918 Operation Faustschlag(part of the 1918 Central Powersoccupation of Ukraine) German–AH–UPR victory 13–25 April 1918 Crimea Operation (1918)(part of the 1918 Central Powersoccupation of Ukraine) Crimean People's Republic Taurida Soviet Socialist RepublicGerman–UPR–Crimean victory 29–30 April 1918 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état(part of the 1918 Central Powersoccupation of Ukraine) Central Rada Hetmanate victory 16 November – 15 December 1918 Anti-Hetman Uprising(part of the 1918 Central Powersoccupation of Ukraine) Directorate Revolutionary InsurgentArmy of Ukraine Green armies

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

Volunteer Army Imperial German ArmyUPR victory 18 November 1918 Battle of Motovilivka(part of the 1918 Central Powersoccupation of Ukraine) UPR victory 18 November 1918 – March 1919 Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 Russian State (1918–1920) Estonia Lithuania Belarusian Democratic Republic Second Polish Republic Ukrainian People's Republic Ober Ost Finnish, Danish,and Swedish volunteers Soviet Estonia Soviet Latvia Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR Provisional Polish Rewkom Finnish Red GuardsSoviet victory inEastern Belorussia

Soviet defeat inthe Baltic states andWestern Belorussia

Start of thePolish–Soviet War 2 January – 31 August 1919 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine Nationalists Ukrainian People's Republic West Ukrainian PR Independent Medvyn Republic Kholodny Yar Republic

White movement & Allies South Russia Crimean Regional Govt French Third Republic Kingdom of Greece Second Polish Republic Soviets Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Crimean SSR

Communist partisans Green Army Hryhorivshchyna MakhnovshchynaSoviet defeat

Hryhoriv andMakhnov partisansrebel againstSoviet command

Whites with Allied helpwin in the Donbas,capture Kiev andadvance on Moscow

Poland occupiesVolhynia and Galicia 7 January – 1 February 1919 Khotyn Uprising Ukrainian andMoldovan insurgents Supported by: Committee for theSalvation of Bessarabia Volunteer Army(logistical support) Kingdom of RomaniaRomanian victory 18 January – 5 February 1919 Battle of Kiev (January 1919) Russian SFSRSoviet victory 31 August 1919 Capture of Kiev by the White Army South Russia (White Army) Armed Forces of South RussiaAFSR victory 6 December 1919 – 6 May 1920 First Winter Campaign Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR

South RussiaUPR victory 15 April 1920 Battle of Voznesensk (1920) Russian SFSRUPR victory 25 April – July 1920 Kiev offensive (1920) Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSRSoviet victory 12–25 August 1920 Battle of Warsaw (1920) Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSRPolish–UPR victory October – November 1921 Second Winter Campaign Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSRSoviet victory

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