Draft:Proskuriv offensive

Proskuriv offensive
Part of Ukrainian-Soviet War
Date 1 June-16 July 1919 Location Podolia, Ukrainian People's Republic Result Ukrainian victory Full results Beginning of the Ukrainian Anti-Soviet campaign Red Army offensive towards Soviet Hungary halted
Belligerents
Ukrainian People's Republic	Russian SFSR
Commanders and leaders
Symon Petliura Oleksandr Udovychenko Volodymyr Salsky Vasyl Tiutiunnyk	Nikolai Semyonov

The Proskuriv offensive or Proskuriv breakthrough (Ukrainian: Проскурівський прорив) was a major military operation carried by the Ukrainian People's Army against the Bolshevik forces in June of 1919 as a part of the Soviet-Ukrainian War. The operation was successful and resulted in a seizure of large parts of Western Podolia by the People's Army, capture of Kamianets-Podilskyi and it's proclamation as a temporary capital of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

Background

In 1919 the Red Army and it's allies launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was weakened by an internal conflict that has followed the overthrow of hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky. On 5 of February, the Bolsheviks captured Kiev and as of May 1919, most of Ukraine came under Soviet control, while the Ukrainian forces were surrounded between the Soviet and Polish armies. However the situation on the captured Ukrainian territory was unstable - in May of 1919 the Green insurgents led by Nykyfor Hryhoriv launched a major uprising against the Soviet rule in Ukraine. UPR government at the time managed to reorganise the Ukrainian army into an 11 new divisions. Vasyl Tyutyunnyk created a plan of breakthrough against the Soviet forces, with the initial goal of the operation being to reach the Starokostiantyniv-Derezhnya-Nova Ushytsia line.

Bibliography

Udovychenko, O. I. (1995). Україна у війні за державність.: Історія організації і бойових дій Українських Збройних Сил 1917—1921. Kyiv.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)