Date |
Battle |
Combatant 1 |
Combatant 2 |
Result |
8–13 November 1917 |
Kiev Bolshevik Uprising[1] |
Bolshevik Revkom Kiev Ukrainian People's Republic |
Kiev Military District |
Bolshevik– UPR victory |
30 November – 1 December 1917 |
Odesa Arsenal November Uprising[2] |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Red Guards |
UPR victory |
11 – 12 December 1917 |
Kiev November uprising (1917)[3] |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Bolshevik Revkom Kiev |
UPR victory |
19 December 1917 – 10 January 1918 |
Occupation of Kharkiv (1917) |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Soviet Russia Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets |
Soviet victory |
25 December 1917 – 2 January 1918 |
Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets |
Soviet victory |
End December 1917 – March 1918 |
Battle of Zhmerynka |
Ukrainian People's Republic Austria-Hungary |
Soviet Russia |
UPR–AH victory |
9–11 January 1918 |
Ekaterinoslav Bolshevik uprising |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Bolshevik Revkom Yekaterinoslav |
Bolshevik victory |
27 – 30 January 1918 |
Odessa Bolshevik uprising |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Bolshevik Rumcherod |
Bolshevik victory |
29 or 30 January 1918 |
Battle of Kruty |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Soviet Russia |
UPR victory |
29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918 |
Kiev Arsenal January Uprising |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Bolshevik Red Guards |
UPR victory |
19 January 1918 — 20 January 1919 |
Occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Soviet Russia |
Soviet victory |
5–8 February 1918 |
Battle of Kiev (1918) |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Soviet Russia |
Soviet victory |
18 February – 3 March 1918 |
Operation Faustschlag |
German Empire Austria-Hungary Ukrainian People's Republic |
Russian Soviet Republic Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets |
German–AH– UPR victory |
13–25 April 1918 |
Crimea Operation (1918) |
German Empire Ukrainian People's Republic Crimean People's Republic |
Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic |
German–UPR –Crimean victory |
29–30 April 1918 |
1918 Ukrainian coup d'état[4] |
Ukrainian People's Republic
|
Hetmanate movement [uk] German Empire |
Hetmanate victory |
31 August 1918 |
Capture of Kiev by the White Army |
Ukrainian People's Republic
Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR |
South Russia (White Army)
|
AFSR victory |
16 November – 15 December 1918 |
Anti-Hetman Uprising |
Ukrainian People's Republic
|
Ukrainian State
|
UPR victory |
18 November 1918 |
Battle of Motovilivka |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Hetmanate movement [uk] |
UPR victory |
18 November 1918 – March 1919 |
Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 |
Russian State (1918–1920) Estonia Latvia Lithuania Belarusian Democratic Republic Second Polish Republic Kingdom of Romania Ukrainian People's Republic French Third Republic United Kingdom Ober Ost Finnish, Danish, and Swedish volunteers[6] |
Russian SFSR Soviet Estonia Soviet Latvia Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR Provisional Polish Rewkom Ukrainian SSR Finnish Red Guards[7] |
Soviet victory in Eastern Belorussia
Soviet defeat in the Baltic states and Western Belorussia
Start of the Polish–Soviet War |
2 January – 31 August 1919 |
1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine |
Nationalists
White movement & Allies
|
Soviets
Communist partisans
|
Soviet defeat
Hryhoriv and Makhnov partisans rebel against Soviet command
Whites with Allied help win in the Donbas, capture Kiev and advance on Moscow
Poland occupies Volhynia and Galicia |
7 January – 1 February 1919 |
Khotyn Uprising |
Ukrainian and Moldovan insurgents
Supported by:
- Committee for the
Salvation of Bessarabia
- Volunteer Army
(logistical support)
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Kingdom of Romania |
Romanian victory |
18 January – 5 February 1919 |
Battle of Kiev (January 1919) |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Russian SFSR |
Soviet victory |
6 December 1919 – 6 May 1920 |
First Winter Campaign |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR
South Russia |
UPR victory |
25 April – July 1920 |
Kiev offensive (1920) |
Second Polish Republic Ukrainian People's Republic |
Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR |
Soviet victory |
12–25 August 1920 |
Battle of Warsaw (1920) |
Second Polish Republic Ukrainian People's Republic[8] |
Russian SFSR Byelorussian SSR Ukrainian SSR |
Polish victory |
October – November 1921 |
Second Winter Campaign |
Ukrainian People's Republic |
Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR |
Soviet victory |