Ukrainian-Soviet War
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Was a conflict between Ukrainian nationalist forces and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. It also included a multitude of ethnical and local factions.
Chronology
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February 1919: Kiev fell to the Bolshevisk on February 5, 1919.
April 1918: Former Imperial Russian Army General Pavlo Skoropadsky led a successful German-backed coup against the Rada on April 29. He proclaimed the conservative Ukrainian State (also known as the "Hetmanate") with himself as monarch, and reversed many of the socialist policies.
February 1918: Donetsk-Krivoi Rog Soviet Republic was a self-declared Soviet republic of the Russian SFSR founded on 12 February 1918.
March 1919: Ukrainian Bolsheviks took Mykolaiv.
November 1917: The Rada announced a wider autonomy for the Ukrainian Republic, still maintaining ties to Russia.
January 1919: The Soviet Army took Poltava while the Ukrainian troops retreated further to Kremenchuk.
January 1919: The Komancza was suppressed by the Polish government as part of the Polish-Ukrainian War.
November 1918: When the Central Powers were defeated on the Western Front, Germany completely withdrew from Ukraine. Skoropadsky left Kiev with the Germans, and the Hetmanate was in turn overthrown by the socialist Directorate.
April 1919: By the middle of April, the Bolsheviks defeated the army of the UNR and crossed the Novohrad-Volynsky-Shepetivka-Proskurov-Mogilev-Podolsky line.
February 1918: The Kuban People's Republic was proclaimed by the Kuban Rada on 28 January 1918 and declared its independence on 16 February.
May 1920: Kiev Offensive: The combined Polish-Ukrainian forces entered Kiev.
March 1919: On March 2 Ukrainian military leader Otaman Hryhoryev occupied Kherson.
February 1918: Ukraine was already independant from russia, but partially occupied by it and at same time already a German protectorate. It joined the treaty to push out the red army. Ukraine signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to obtain military help from the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Germany helped the Ukrainian Army force the Bolsheviks out of Ukraine. By April the German-Austrian Operation Faustschlag offensive had completely removed the Bolsheviks from Ukraine. Thus Germany was able to made entire Ukraine a protectorate.
March 1919: In Northern Ukraine, Soviet troops took Ovruch and Chernigov.
November 1918: On November 9 Polish forces attempted to seize the Drohobych oil fields by surprise but were driven back, outnumbered by the Ukrainians. The resulting stalemate saw the Poles retaining control over Lviv and a narrow strip of land around a railway linking the city to Poland, while the rest of eastern Galicia remained under the control of the West Ukrainian National Republic.
March 1919: Soviet troops crossed the line Korosten - Zhitomir - Uman - Olviopol - Kherson - Melitopol.
April 1920: Kiev Offensive: The Ukrainians led by Pilsudski struck on April 25, and captured Zhytomyr the following day.
January 1918: Due to the declared indipendency from Russia] a series of regional Soviet republics on the territory of Ukraine proclaimed their independence and allegiance to the Petrograd sovnarkom (Odessa Soviet Republic).
January 1918: Poltava conquered by RSFSR.
March 1918: The Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian armies drove the Bolsheviks out of Ukraine, taking Kiev on March 1.
February 1919: Oleksandria and Yelyzavethrad conquered by RSFSR.
June 1920: Kiev was evacuated and left to the Soviets.
December 1917: Bolshevik forces captured Kharkiv.
January 1918: Aleksandrovsk conquered by RSFSR.
January 1918: Due to the aggression from Soviet Russia, on 25 January 1918, the Tsentralna Rada issued its Fourth Universal, breaking ties with Bolshevik Russia and proclaiming a sovereign Ukrainian state.
January 1918: Bolsheviks take control of Zhitomir.
January 1918: The Bolsheviks quickly overran Poltava, Aleksandrovsk, and Yekaterinoslav by January 1918.
March 1918: The Odessa Soviet Republic ceased to exist altogether when it was sacked by German and Austro-Hungarian troops two months after its creation.
March 1918: In accordance with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Donetsk-Krivoi Rog Soviet Republic was abolished.
April 1918: Kharkov conquered by germany.
November 1918: The West Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed.
November 1918: The Komancza Republic was a short-lived microstate, an association of thirty three Lemko villages, seated in Komańcza in eastern Lemkivshchyna, that existed between 4 November 1918 and 24 January 1919.
December 1918: The Lemko Republic was a short-lived state founded in 1918 in the aftermath of World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was located in the Lemko region of present-day Poland and Ukraine.
December 1918: The Ukrainian Front took the important strategic railroad connection in Kupyansk.
January 1919: The troops under the command of Mykola Schors occupied Chernihiv.
January 1919: Act Zluky: The government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic officially united with the Ukrainian People's Republic.
January 1919: On January 26 Dybenko (RSFSR) took Katerynoslav.
March 1919: Declaration of the Ukrainian Soviet republic.
March 1919: Surprisingly, by the end of March the Ukrainian armies successfully conducted series of military operations liberating Sarny, Zhytomyr, Korosten, and threatening to take back Kiev.
April 1919: By April 3 the Entente forces evacuated from Odessa.
November 1921: With the Second Winter Campaign, Korosten was captured by communist forces.
April 1920: The Lemko Republic was ended by the Polish government in March 1920.
January 1919: On January 3, the Red Army took Kharkiv.
Ukrainian-led insurrection in the far-northern tip of Bessarabia.
