Rovno offensive

Rovno Offensive
Part of the Eastern Front of World War I

Great Retreat and Rovno offensive
Date27 August – 15 October 1915
Location
Rovno
(Western Ukraine)
Result Russian victory
Belligerents
 Austria-Hungary
 German Empire
Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf Nikolai Ivanov
Platon Lechitsky
Alexei Brusilov
Vladimir Sakharov
Units involved
I Army
II Army
IV Army
VII Army
VIII Army
IX Army
XI Army
Strength
On 28 August 1915
Total: 1,120,000 men
2,066 guns
1,425 machine guns
On 28 August 1915
Total: >1,000,000 men
1,883 guns
1,471 machine guns
Casualties and losses
Total: 214,965 men
18,199 KIA
74,053 WIA
122,713 MIA
Total 289,695 men
41,205 KIA
179,394 WIA
69,096 MIA

The Rovno offensive — the operation of the Austro-Hungarian Northern armies against the armies of the Russian Southwestern Front — the so-called campaign on Rovno, or Lutsk-Rovno offensive operation. The purpose of the offensive was the liberation of Eastern Galicia, but by the end of the operation, a small part of Eastern Galicia was still held by the Russian Imperial Army.