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Battle of Kiev (1918)
Battle between the Ukrainian Whites and the Bolshevik forces in Ukraine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Kiev of January 1918 was a Bolshevik military operation of Petrograd and Moscow Red Guard formations directed to capture the capital of Ukraine. The operation was led by Red Guards commander Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov as part of the Soviet expeditionary force against Kaledin and the Central Council of Ukraine. The storming of Kiev took place during the ongoing peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk on 5–8 February 1918 (23–26 January in the Julian calendar). The operation resulted in the occupation of the city by Bolshevik troops on 9 February and the evacuation of the Ukrainian government to Zhytomyr.
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Part of Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1921) | |||||||
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Kiev city garrison | Red Guards | ||||||
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2,000 3 batteries |
7,000 armored train artillery battery |
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