Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine

Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
Part of the prelude to World War II
Date13–18 March 1939 (1939-03-13 1939-03-18)
Location
Result Hungarian victory
Territorial
changes
Hungarian occupation and annexation
Belligerents
Invading:

Supported by:

Defending:
Suppressing the Sich:
Commanders and leaders
Units involved
  • Carpathian Group
  • Irregular troops
Strength
  • > 25,000

Other estimates:

  • 18,000
  • 500 guns
  • 50 tanks
  • 15 aircraft
  • ± 8,000

Other estimates:

  • 2,700 (Czechoslovak)
  • 1,500 (Ukrainian)
  • 6 light tanks LT-35 (Czechoslovak)
  • 4 armored vehicles OA vz.30 (Czechoslovak)
Casualties and losses
  • 72 killed, 164 wounded, 3 missing and 2 prisoners (official Hungarian statistics)
  • ± 200 killed and several hundred wounded (Czechoslovak and Ukrainian estimates)
1,500 killed and wounded

The Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine was a 1939 military conflict between the Kingdom of Hungary and Carpatho-Ukraine. During the invasion a series of clashes took place between the Hungarian and Polish troops against the paramilitary formations of the Carpathian Sich of Carpathian Ukraine and some Czech troops who remained in the region after the Czechoslovak army was disbanded. The war ended with the occupation and subsequent annexation of the territory of Transcarpathian Ukraine (Subcarpathian Rus') to the Kingdom of Hungary.

This territory was later invaded by the Soviet Union and integrated into its Ukrainian SSR.