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| date = 6 September 1943 |
| date = 6 September 1943 |
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| place = [[Vilya]] |
| place = [[Vilya]] |
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| result = Polish victory{{Sfn|Siemaszko|Siemaszko|2000|pp=279-280 |
| result = Polish victory{{Sfn|Siemaszko|Siemaszko|2000|pp=279-280}} |
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| combatant1 = [[File:Flaga PPP.svg|24px|border|link]] [[Home Army]]<br/>[[File:Flag of the USSR (1936-1955).svg|26px|border|link]] [[Soviet partisans]] |
| combatant1 = [[File:Flaga PPP.svg|24px|border|link]] [[Home Army]]<br/>[[File:Flag of the USSR (1936-1955).svg|26px|border|link]] [[Soviet partisans]] |
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| combatant2 = [[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|22px|border|link]] [[Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army]](Polesian Sich) |
| combatant2 = [[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|22px|border|link]] [[Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army]](Polesian Sich) |
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| commander1 = [[File:Flaga PPP.svg|24px|border|link]] [[ Władysław Kochański]]<br/>[[File:Flaga PPP.svg|24px|border|link]] Zdzisław Ostromęcki{{KIA}}<br/>[[File:Flag of the USSR (1936-1955).svg|26px|border|link]] Franciszek Szafran |
| commander1 = [[File:Flaga PPP.svg|24px|border|link]] [[ Władysław Kochański]]<br/>[[File:Flaga PPP.svg|24px|border|link]] Zdzisław Ostromęcki{{KIA}}<br/>[[File:Flag of the USSR (1936-1955).svg|26px|border|link]] Franciszek Szafran |
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| commander2 = [[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|22px|border|link]] Petro Dolmatyuk<br/>[[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|22px|border|link]] Ivan Mitrynga{{KIA}} |
| commander2 = [[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|22px|border|link]] Petro Dolmatyuk<br/>[[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|22px|border|link]] Ivan Mitrynga{{KIA}} |
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| strength1 = Unknown |
| strength1 = Unknown |
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| strength2 = Unknown |
| strength2 = Unknown |
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| casualties1 = 18 or 23 killed, 2 wounded |
| casualties1 = 18 or 23 killed, 2 wounded |
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| casualties2 = 8 Killed, 15 Wounded |
| casualties2 = 8 Killed, 15 Wounded |
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| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict}} |
| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict}} |
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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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The Battle of Vilya - an armed clash that took place on 6 September 1943 in the village of Vilya in Volhynia, between a detachment of the Home Army and a group of Soviet partisans made up of Poles and a detachment of the Polesian Sich.[2][1]
Battle
On 6 September 1943, two sotnias and a staff group of the Polesian Sich stationed in the devastated village of Vilya in Volhynia (Ludwipol commune in the Kostopol district) came into accidental contact with a detachment of the Home Army and a Felix Dzerzhinsky detachment of Polish communist partisans, who were guarding a grain haul. The Home Army part of the group was commanded by Lieutenant Zdzisław Ostromęcki "Podkowa".[2] The commander of the communist part was platoon leader Franciszek Szafran.[2] In total, the Polish forces initially numbered around 40 armed men.[2]
Both sides, surprised by the encounter, engaged in a battle in which the weaker Polish side initially suffered losses of 16 men.[1] The battle was won by the arrival of reinforcements from a Soviet unit and an Home Army unit under Władyslaw Kochański, pseud. "Bomba".[1] The Ukrainian unit was smashed and pushed out of the Vilya.[1]
After bloody clashes that lasted all day, the Polish partisans also withdrew. According to Grzegorz Motyka, the Poles lost a total of 23 men in the clash.[2] According to Władysław and Ewa Siemaszek, Polish losses amounted to 18 killed; among others, Second Lieutenant Ostromęcki was killed.[1] On the Ukrainian side, heavy losses were also reported: 8 killed, including Ivan Mitrynga[ua], and 15 wounded.[1][2]
Bibliography
- Siemaszko, Władysław; Siemaszko, Ewa (2000). Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945 [Genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia] (in Polish). Warsaw: Von Borowiecky. ISBN 83-87689-34-3.
- Grzegorz, Motyka (2011). Od rzezi wołyńskiej do akcji „Wisła”. Konflikt polsko-ukraiński 1943-1947 [From the Volhynian massacre to Operation Vistula. Polish-Ukrainian conflict 1943-1947] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. ISBN 978-83-08-04576-3.