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When the Central Powers were defeated on the Western Front, Germany completely withdrew from Ukraine. The Hetmanate was overthrown by the socialist Directorate. The Republic was slowly absorbed by the Ukraine SR until 1921.
Establishment
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.
November 1918: The Whites entered Lugansk and took controle of the Lugansk and Slovianoserbsk districts.
November 1918: Zhlobin conquered by RSFSR.
December 1918: The Cossacks entered Debaltsevo, Donetsk and Mariupol.
December 1918: On 18 December 1918, a month after the armistice, the French occupied Odessa and Sevastopol. This began the intervention in southern Russia (later Ukraine) which was to aid and supply General Denikin's White Army forces.
December 1918: The Ukrainian Front took the important strategic railroad connection in Kupyansk.
Chronology
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Was a Civil War in Russia that involved varios factions but mainly the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Army in the core Russian territories, as well as a multitude of local secessionist states. At the end of war the Bolsheviks were victorious and established the Soviet Union.
1.1.Ukrainian-Soviet War
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.
January 1919: On January 3, the Red Army took Kharkiv.
January 1919: The troops under the command of Mykola Schors occupied Chernihiv.
January 1919: The Soviet Army took Poltava while the Ukrainian troops retreated further to Kremenchuk.
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.
February 1919: Kiev fell to the Bolshevisk on February 5, 1919.
February 1919: Oleksandria and Yelyzavethrad conquered by RSFSR.
March 1919: On March 2 Ukrainian military leader Otaman Hryhoryev occupied Kherson.
March 1919: In Northern Ukraine, Soviet troops took Ovruch and Chernigov.
March 1919: Soviet troops crossed the line Korosten - Zhitomir - Uman - Olviopol - Kherson - Melitopol.
March 1919: Ukrainian Bolsheviks took Mykolaiv.
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 the middle of April, the Bolsheviks defeated the army of the UNR and crossed the Novohrad-Volynsky-Shepetivka-Proskurov-Mogilev-Podolsky line.
April 1920: Kiev Offensive: The Ukrainians led by Pilsudski struck on April 25, and captured Zhytomyr the following day.
May 1920: Kiev Offensive: The combined Polish-Ukrainian forces entered Kiev.
June 1920: Kiev was evacuated and left to the Soviets.
November 1921: With the Second Winter Campaign, Korosten was captured by communist forces.
1.1.1.Southern Russia intervention (Russian Civil War)
Was an Allied military intervention against the Bolsheviks in Ukraine between December 1918 and April 1919, during the Russian Civil War.
1.2.South Russia 1919 campaign
Was a military offensive by pro-White South Russia during the Russian Civil War.
1.2.1.Battle for the Donbass
Was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War in which White forces repulsed attacks of the Red Army on the Don Host Oblast and occupied the Donbass region.
January 1919: The Lozovaya-Sinelnikovo line was taken by the communists.
January 1919: Bolshevik units led by Kozhevnikov units occupied Kostiantynivka and Bakhmut.
February 1919: The Makhno brigade recaptured Polohy.
1.3.Soviet westward offensive of 1918-25
Was a military campaign by the Russian SFSR into regions that had been evacuated by the German forces in eastern Europe after World War I.
1.3.1.Soviet westward offensive in Poland
Was a military offensive by the Russian SFSR in Poland after the German army left the area.
February 1919: The Soviet westward offensive came to a halt by late February.
1.4.Polish-Soviet War
Was a war between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the aftermath of World War I and during the Russian Civil War.
August 1919: Dubno and Krzemieniec in the Wołyń region were captured by Polish forces.
August 1919: The town and fortress of Równe was captured by Polish forces.
August 1919: On 18 August Zasław was occupied by Polish forces.
August 1919: Borysów conquered by Second Polish Republic.
June 1920: Soviet forces under Yakir captured the Bila Tserkva.
1.4.1.Battle of Warsaw
Were a series of battles during the Polish-Soviet war that resulted in the defeat of the invading Russian SFSR.
March 1921: A ceasefire was signed between Poland and Soviet Russia on 12 October and went into effect on 18 October. Borders were settled in the Peace of Riga, signed in Riga on 18 March 1921.
Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.
2.1.Aftermath of World War I
Were a series of treaties and military events that can be considered a direct consequence of World War I.
2.1.1.Polish-Ukrainian War
Was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian People's Republic).
February 1919: Ukrainians managed to surround Lviv on three sides.
May 1919: The Polish forces reached the Złota Lipa-Berezhany-Jezierna-Radziwiłłów line.
June 1919: By June 27 the Ukrainian forces had advanced 120 km along the Dnister river and on another they had advanced 150 km, past the town of Brody.
July 1919: The Ukrainian Galician Army and ZUNR leadership were pushed back to the line of the Zbruch river on 16-18 July, after which ZUNR was occupied by Poland.
Disestablishment
March 1921: A ceasefire was signed between Poland and Soviet Russia on 12 October and went into effect on 18 October. Borders were settled in the Peace of Riga, signed in Riga on 18 March 1921.
November 1921: With the Second Winter Campaign, Korosten was captured by communist forces.
Ukrainian People's Republic
