List of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic explained

This is a list of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic. The battles conducted by the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR, UNR) were part of a complex of simultaneously fought wars at the tail of World War I, including the Ukrainian War of Independence, the Russian Civil War, the Ukrainian–Soviet War, the Polish–Ukrainian War (primarily conducted by its ally, the West Ukrainian People's Republic and its Ukrainian Galician Army), and the Polish–Soviet War (in which the UPR was allied with the Second Polish Republic).

Dates are in New Style, unless stated otherwise.

Date	Battle	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
8–13 November 1917	Kiev Bolshevik Uprising^[1]	Bolshevik Revkom Kiev	Kiev Military District	Bolshevik– UPR victory
30 November – 1 December 1917	Odesa Arsenal November Uprising^[2]		Red Guards	UPR victory
11 – 12 December 1917	Kiev November uprising (1917)^[3]		Bolshevik Revkom Kiev	UPR victory
19 December 1917 – 10 January 1918	Occupation of Kharkiv (1917)		Soviet Russia	Soviet victory
25 December 1917 – 2 January 1918	Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising			Soviet victory
End December 1917 – March 1918	Battle of Zhmerynka	Austria-Hungary	Soviet Russia	UPR–AH victory
9–11 January 1918	Ekaterinoslav Bolshevik uprising		Bolshevik Revkom Yekaterinoslav	Bolshevik victory
27 – 30 January 1918	Odessa Bolshevik uprising		Bolshevik Rumcherod	Bolshevik victory
29 or 30 January 1918			Soviet Russia	UPR victory
29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918	Kiev Arsenal January Uprising		Bolshevik Red Guards	UPR victory
19 January 1918 — 20 January 1919	Occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks		Soviet Russia	Soviet victory
5–8 February 1918	Battle of Kiev (1918)		Soviet Russia	Soviet victory
18 February – 3 March 1918	Operation Faustschlag			German–AH– UPR victory
13–25 April 1918	Crimea Operation (1918)	Crimean People's Republic	Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic	German–UPR –Crimean victory
29–30 April 1918	1918 Ukrainian coup d'état^[4]	Central Rada		Hetmanate victory
16 November – 15 December 1918	Anti-Hetman Uprising	Directorate Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine^[5] Green armies Left Socialist-Revolutionaries	Volunteer Army Imperial German Army	UPR victory
18 November 1918	Battle of Motovilivka			UPR victory
18 November 1918 – March 1919	Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919	Russian State (1918–1920) Estonia Latvia Lithuania Belarusian Democratic Republic Second Polish Republic Ukrainian People's Republic Ober Ost Finnish, Danish, and Swedish volunteers^[6]	Soviet Estonia Soviet Latvia Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR Provisional Polish Rewkom Ukrainian SSR Finnish Red Guards^[7]	Soviet victory in Eastern Belorussia-----Soviet defeat in the Baltic states and Western Belorussia-----Start of the Polish–Soviet War
2 January – 31 August 1919	1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine	Nationalists Ukrainian People's Republic West Ukrainian PR Independent Medvyn Republic Kholodny Yar Republic ----White movement & Allies South Russia Crimean Regional Govt French Third Republic Kingdom of Greece Second Polish Republic	Soviets Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Crimean SSR ----Communist partisans Green Army Hryhorivshchyna Makhnovshchyna	Soviet defeat-----Hryhoriv and Makhnov partisans rebel against Soviet command-----Whites with Allied help win in the Donbas, capture Kiev and advance on Moscow-----Poland occupies Volhynia and Galicia
7 January – 1 February 1919	Khotyn Uprising	Ukrainian and Moldovan insurgents Supported by: Committee for the Salvation of Bessarabia Volunteer Army (logistical support) -----	Kingdom of Romania	Romanian victory
18 January – 5 February 1919	Battle of Kiev (January 1919)		Russian SFSR	Soviet victory
31 August 1919	Capture of Kiev by the White Army	-----	South Russia (White Army) Armed Forces of South Russia	AFSR victory
6 December 1919 – 6 May 1920	First Winter Campaign		Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR----- South Russia	UPR victory
25 April – July 1920	Kiev offensive (1920)		Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Soviet victory
12–25 August 1920	Battle of Warsaw (1920)	^[8]	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Polish victory
October – November 1921	Second Winter Campaign		Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Soviet victory

Notes and References

1. Kovalchuk, M. Unfortunate October: Bolshevik Uprising attempt in Kiev in 1917 (Невдалий Жовтень: спроба більшовицького повстання в Києві у 1917-му). Ukrayinska Pravda (Istorychna Pravda). 5 September 2012
2. Web site: Военная литература --[Военная история ]-- Савченко В. А. Двенадцать войн за Украину ]. 2024-02-20 . militera.lib.ru.
3. Web site: Перший український козацький полк імені гетьмана Богдана Хмельницького :: Товариство учасників бойових дій "Спас-Україна". www.spas.net.ua. 2022-01-20. 10 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220410091214/http://www.spas.net.ua/index.php/library/article/251#:~:text=В%20першій%20половині%20грудня%201917,і%20відрізання%20його%20від%20України..
4. News: Shurkhalo . Dmytro . 29 April 2018 . 100-ліття гетьманського перевороту: як Скоропадський прийшов до влади . uk . 100th anniversary of the Hetman's coup: how Skoropadskyi came to power . . 10 September 2023.
5. News: Shurkhalo . Dmytro . 4 November 2018 . Нестор Махно: самородок, військові таланти якого годі пояснити . uk . Nestor Makhno: gold, with military talents that cannot be explained . . 15 September 2023.
6. Web site: Per Finsted . Boganmeldelse: For Dannebrogs Ære - Danske frivillige i Estlands og Letlands frihedskamp 1919 af Niels Jensen . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928121525/http://www.chakoten.dk/cgi-bin/fm.cgi?n=911 . 2011-09-28 . 2011-06-18 . chakoten.dk . da.
7. Book: Thomas . Nigel . Boltowsky . Toomas . Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 2019 . 23 . 9781472830791.
8. Web site: Європа повинна пам'ятати: вояки УНР у 1920 році рятували її від комунізму . 28 August 2017 . 28 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170828192837/https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/28697110.html .