Battle of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca
| Battle of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca | |||||||||
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| Part of the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict during World War II | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Home Army Peasant Battalions |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army 1st Galician SS Luftwaffe | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Zenon Jachymek | Maryan Lukasevych | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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Operational Group “Łódź”
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 3,000 | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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71 killed; 100 wounded Heavy | Unknown | ||||||||
| 93 Ukrainian civilians murdered | |||||||||
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The Battle of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca (Polish: Bitwa 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 Northern Operational Group 6th Operational Group “Syan” in the Western Operational Group of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Third Reich and 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galicia” of the villages of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca in the Tomaszów County of the Lublin Voivodeship.