Battle of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca
An armed clashes in 1944 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca (Polish: Bitwy pod Ulhówkiem i Rzeczycą, Ukrainian: Бої під Ульгувіком і Жечицею; 1–2 June 1944) was fought between the Military Inspectorate “Piotrków Trybunalski” and Military District “Tomaszów Mazowiecki” in the Operational Group “Łódź” of the Home Army and Peasant Battalions under the command of Zenon Jachymek against the 3rd Operational Group “Turiv” in the Nothern Operational Group 6th Operational Group “Syan” in the Western Operational Group of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Kusch Units of the Ukrainian Self–Defense, Third Reich and 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galicia” under the command of Oleksiy Hromadyuk, Myroslav Onyshkevych and Dmytro Kazvan in the outskirts of the villages of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca in the Tomaszów County of the Lublin Voivodeship.[6]
Battle of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca | |||||||
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Part of the Massacres of the Poles in the Volhynia and Galicia during the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict in the World War II | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Units involved | |||||||
Operational Group “Łódź”
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3,000 men[1] | Unknown[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||
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71 killed[3][4] 100 wounded[3][4] | Heavy | ||||||
93 Ukrainian civilians were murdered[5] | |||||||