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 Uprising[1]	Bolshevik Revkom Kiev  Ukrainian People's Republic	Kiev Military District	Bolshevik– UPR victory
30 November – 1 December 1917	Odesa Arsenal November Uprising[2]	Ukrainian People's Republic	Red Guards	UPR victory
11 – 12 December 1917	Kiev November uprising (1917)[3]	Ukrainian People's Republic	Bolshevik Revkom Kiev	UPR victory
19 December 1917 – 10 January 1918	Occupation of Kharkiv (1917)	Ukrainian People's Republic	Soviet Russia  Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets	Soviet victory
25 December 1917 – 2 January 1918	Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising	Ukrainian People's Republic	Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets	Soviet victory
End December 1917 – March 1918	Battle of Zhmerynka	Ukrainian People's Republic Austria-Hungary	Soviet Russia	UPR–AH victory
9–11 January 1918	Ekaterinoslav Bolshevik uprising	Ukrainian People's Republic	Bolshevik Revkom Yekaterinoslav	Bolshevik victory
27 – 30 January 1918	Odessa Bolshevik uprising	Ukrainian People's Republic	Bolshevik Rumcherod	Bolshevik victory
29 or 30 January 1918	Battle of Kruty	Ukrainian People's Republic	Soviet Russia	UPR victory
29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918	Kiev Arsenal January Uprising	Ukrainian People's Republic	Bolshevik Red Guards	UPR victory
19 January 1918 — 20 January 1919	Occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks	Ukrainian People's Republic	Soviet Russia	Soviet victory
5–8 February 1918	Battle of Kiev (1918)	Ukrainian People's Republic	Soviet Russia	Soviet victory
18 February – 3 March 1918	Operation Faustschlag	German Empire  Austria-Hungary  Ukrainian People's Republic	Russian Soviet Republic  Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets	German–AH– UPR victory
13–25 April 1918	Crimea Operation (1918)	German Empire  Ukrainian People's Republic Crimean People's Republic	Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic	German–UPR –Crimean victory
29–30 April 1918	1918 Ukrainian coup d'état[4]	Ukrainian People's Republic Central Rada	Hetmanate movement [uk]  German Empire	Hetmanate victory
16 November – 15 December 1918	Anti-Hetman Uprising	Ukrainian People's Republic Directorate Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine[5] Green armies  Russian SFSR Left Socialist-Revolutionaries	Ukrainian State Hetmanate movement [uk] Volunteer Army Imperial German Army[a]	UPR victory
18 November 1918	Battle of Motovilivka	Ukrainian People's Republic	Hetmanate movement [uk]	UPR victory
18 November 1918 – March 1919	Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919	Russian State (1918–1920) Estonia  Latvia Lithuania Belarusian Democratic Republic Second Polish Republic  Kingdom of Romania Ukrainian People's Republic  French Third Republic  United Kingdom Ober Ost Finnish, Danish, and Swedish volunteers[6]	Russian SFSR Soviet Estonia Soviet Latvia Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR Provisional Polish Rewkom Ukrainian SSR Finnish Red Guards[7]	Soviet victory in Eastern Belorussia Soviet defeat in the Baltic states and Western Belorussia Start of the Polish–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 [b] Hryhorivshchyna [c] Makhnovshchyna [d]	Soviet defeat Hryhoriv and Makhnov partisans rebel against Soviet command Whites with Allied help win in the Donbas, capture Kiev and advance on Moscow Poland occupies Volhynia and Galicia
7 January – 1 February 1919	Khotyn Uprising	Ukrainian and Moldovan insurgents Supported by: Committee for the Salvation of Bessarabia Volunteer Army (logistical support)  Ukrainian People's Republic	Kingdom of Romania	Romanian victory
18 January – 5 February 1919	Battle of Kiev (January 1919)	Ukrainian People's Republic	Russian SFSR	Soviet victory
31 August 1919	Capture of Kiev by the White Army	Ukrainian People's Republic  Russian SFSR  Ukrainian SSR	South Russia (White Army) Armed Forces of South Russia	AFSR victory
6 December 1919 – 6 May 1920	First Winter Campaign	Ukrainian People's Republic	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR South Russia	UPR victory
25 April – July 1920	Kiev offensive (1920)	Second Polish Republic  Ukrainian People's Republic	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Soviet victory
12–25 August 1920	Battle of Warsaw (1920)	Second Polish Republic  Ukrainian People's Republic[8]	Russian SFSR  Byelorussian SSR Ukrainian SSR	Polish victory
October – November 1921	Second Winter Campaign	Ukrainian People's Republic	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Soviet victory

Notes

1. Though the Weimar Republic was uninvolved in the conflict, German soldiers present in Ukraine following the end of World War I intervened to prevent the Directorate from taking Kyiv.
2. Allied with the Bolsheviks until February, when it rebelled.
3. Part of the 3rd Ukrainian Soviet Army until May, when it launched an anti-Bolshevik uprising in Kherson.
4. Part of the 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Army until June, when it resigned its position.

References

1. Kovalchuk, 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
2. "Военная литература --[ Военная история ]-- Савченко В. А. Двенадцать войн за Украину". militera.lib.ru. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
3. "Перший український козацький полк імені гетьмана Богдана Хмельницького :: Товариство учасників бойових дій "Спас-Україна"". www.spas.net.ua. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
4. Shurkhalo, Dmytro (29 April 2018). "100-ліття гетьманського перевороту: як Скоропадський прийшов до влади" [100th anniversary of the Hetman's coup: how Skoropadskyi came to power]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 10 September 2023.
5. Shurkhalo, Dmytro (4 November 2018). "Нестор Махно: самородок, військові таланти якого годі пояснити" [Nestor Makhno: gold, with military talents that cannot be explained]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 September 2023.
6. Per Finsted. "Boganmeldelse: For Dannebrogs Ære - Danske frivillige i Estlands og Letlands frihedskamp 1919 af Niels Jensen". chakoten.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
7. Thomas, Nigel; Boltowsky, Toomas (2019). Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 9781472830791.
8. "Європа повинна пам'ятати: вояки УНР у 1920 році рятували її від комунізму". Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.