Battle of Letychiv

Battle of Letychiv
Part of the Polish–Soviet War in 1920
Date February 18 - 22, 1920 Location Letychiv Result Polish victory
Belligerents
Poland	Russian SFSR
Commanders and leaders
Władysław Jędrzejewski	Grigory Kotovsky
Casualties and losses
130 soldiers	two or three times larger than Polish ones

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The Battle of Latyczów or Letychiv took place between 18 and 22 February 1920, during the

The Poles assaulted the Bolshevik Russian forces, but with little success. Gen. Jędrzejewski threw in all of his reserves and finally managed to capture the town of Latyczów (modern Letychiv in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine). The new positions became among the concentration points for the Polish and Ukrainian advance on Kiev started in April. In June and July 1920, the town and its outskirts became a battlefield for yet another conflict, sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Latyczów, in which the Polish Army successfully defended the area against the Soviets advancing on the city of Lvov (modern Lviv, Ukraine).

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