Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
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The anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya, UPA) was a guerrilla war waged by Ukrainian nationalist partisan formations against the Soviet Union in the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR and southwestern regions of the Byelorussian SSR, during and after World War II. With the Red Army forces successful counteroffensive against the Nazi Germany and their invasion into western Ukraine in July 1944, UPA resisted the Red Army's advancement with full-scale guerrilla war, holding up 200,000 Soviet soldiers, particularly in the countryside, and was supplying intelligence to the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) security service.[1][2][nb 1]
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Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army | |||||||
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Part of World War II | |||||||
Flag of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Melnyk) [uk] (to September 1944) |
Supported by: Polish People's Republic | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Stepan Bandera X Andriy Melnyk Mykola Kapustiansky Taras Bulba-Borovets |
Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria Nikita Khrushchev Vsevolod Merkulov Viktor Abakumov Ivan Serov Nikolai Vatutin † Pavel Sudoplatov Timofei Strokach Pavlo Meshyk | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Ukrainian Insurgent Army: more than 155,000 killed 130,000–200,000 arrested[citation needed] |
Soviet Union: 8,340 State Security officers and servicemen killed According to other data: 25,000 State Security officers and servicemen killed; 30,000 Soviet officials killed.[citation needed] |
One major UPA victory against the Soviet Union was the killing of a high ranking Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin.[6] According to Soviet documents during the conflict, a total of 153,000 people were killed, 134,000 arrested, and 203,000 deported by the Soviet authorities, mostly in the years 1944–1945. At the same time, OUN-UPA killed 30,676 people in the years 1944–1953, and 8,340 of them were soldiers.[10]