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The Battle of Huta Brzuska (Polish: Bitwa pod Hutą Brzuskę, Ukrainian: Бій під Гутою Березькою; 19 May 1946) was fought between the Companies “Udarnyky–2” and “Udarnyky–7” of the 26th Tactical District “Lemko” in the 6th Operational Group “Syan” of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army under the command of Mykhailo Duda and Hryhoriy Yankivskyi against the 28th Regiment in the 9th Dresden Infantry Division of the Polish People's Army under the command of Aleksander Wygnański in the Przemyśl County of the Lwów Voivodeship.[1]
| Battle of Huta Brzuska | |||||||
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| Part of the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict and Aftermath of the World War II | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Ukrainian Insurgent Army |
.svg){kind=small} Polish People's Army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Mykhailo Duda Hryhoriy Yankivskyi |
Aleksander Wygnański | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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Operational Group “Rzeszów”
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| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | 150 men[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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1 killed[1] 1 captured[1] |
18 killed[1] 15 wounded[1] | ||||||
Background
editOn 14 May, the Companies "Udarnyky–2" and "Udarnyky–4” in the 26th Tactical District "Lemko" of the 6th Operational Group “Syan” were quartered in the village of Kupna, from where the evicted Ukrainian villages, already inhabited by the Polish People's Army, were supposed to be burned and their tasks was about to defend them.[1]
Battle
editOn 19 May, at 02:00 a.m., the Companies "Udarnyky–2” and "Udarnyky–7" to the forest above the village of Kupna and camped there. So that in the event of the Polish attack, the Ukrainian insurgents could take up the defense, they spread out in a firing line in the form of a triangle and set up racks and eavesdroppers. At 12:00 a.m., the rack, was which stood from the village of Huta Brzuska, noticed the Polish People’s Army who were approaching from the village and fired from a chair. The Polish armed units went in three swarms, they probably planned to attack to the village, because they thought that the departments of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army were in the village. And they were right about it. The Ukrainians let them to a distance of 20 meters and then opened a heavy fire on them with the exclamation: "Glory!" and went forward. Then the Poles lay down and also opened an machine gun fire and they advance and shouted: "Don't shoot, it's ours!", but the Ukrainian gunner stopped them with an heavy machine gun fire and the UPA began to attack them again. The Poles, when they saw that they had suffered an heavy losses, began to flee in a panic, leaving 18 dead bodies on the battlefield.[1]
Aftermath
editAfter the battle, the civilian intelligence later reported, that the Polish armed units were numbered 150 men, of whom during the battle 18 men (including 4 sergeants) killed, 15 men wounded and 25 men were missing during the battle and the Ukrainian losses was about 1 men killed and 1 men were captured. The Ukrainian armed units has captured: 2 armchairs, 2 submachine guns PPSH–41's, 250 cartridges for the heavy machine gun “Maksym” and they took the weapons from the rest dead bodies of the fallen Polish soldiers on the battlefield.[1]
The Company "Udarnyky–4" of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army under the command of "Bis" went to the head of the department, then from the snags, from a distance of 20 meters, a Pole, who was hiding there, shot "Bis" in the head with one round from the submachine gun PPSH–41 and killed him.[1]