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Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
| Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine | ||||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||||
Invading: HungarySupported by:  Poland Germany |
Defending: Carpatho-Ukraine Czechoslovakia (until 16th March) |
Suppressing the Sich: Czechoslovakia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||||
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Miklós Horthy András Littay Ferenc Szombathelyi Miklós Kozma Edmund Charaszkiewicz |
Avgustyn Voloshyn Dmytro Kłympusz Mychajło Kołodzinskyj † Zenon Kossak † Oleg Svátek Lev Prchala |
Bohumil Mařík Lev Prchala Oleg Svátek | ||||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||||
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Carpathian Group[1] Irregular troops |
12th Division[1] Border Security (StOS)[1] Carpathian Sich[1] | |||||||||
| Strength | ||||||||||
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> 25,000[2] Other estimates: 18,000[1] 500 guns 50 tanks 15 aircraft |
± 8,000[2] Other estimates: 2,700 (Czechoslovak)[1] 1,500 (Ukrainian)[1] 6 light tanks LT-35 (Czechoslovak) 4 armored vehicles OA vz.30 (Czechoslovak) | |||||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||||
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72 deaths, 164 wounded, 3 missing and 2 prisoners (official Hungarian statistics)[3] ± 200 killed and several hundred wounded (Czechoslovak and Ukrainian estimates)[3] |
1,500 killed and wounded[4] | 4,500 ukrainian civilians dead[5] | ||||||||
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.[6]
This territory was later invaded by the Soviet Union and integrated into its Ukrainian SSR.
- ^ a b c d e f g "80 років тому Карпатська Україна проголосила незалежність" [It is 80 years ago Carpathian Ukraine declared its independence]. Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ a b "Bitva na Krásném poli". Zakarpatí.cz (in Czech). 2008-07-16. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ a b "Опір у Карпатах. Як закарпатці боронилися від угорської агресії в 1939 році" [Resistance in the Carpathians. How Transcarpathians defended the Hungarian aggression in 1939]. Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ Časopis ATM číslo 7/2009: Jan Máče: Ústup z Karpatské Ukrajiny, str. 75
- ^ Сьогодні - 80-річчя з дня проголошення Карпатської Украины
- ^ "Ющенко помолився в Хусті за героїв Карпатської України". Новини NEWSru.ua. 14 March 2009. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017.
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