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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[1]
Belligerents
 Austria-Hungary
 German Empire
Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Austria-Hungary Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf Nikolai Ivanov
Platon Lechitsky
Alexei Brusilov
Vladimir Sakharov
Units involved
Austria-Hungary I Army
Austria-Hungary II Army
Austria-Hungary IV Army
Austria-Hungary VII Army
VIII Army
IX Army
XI Army
Strength
On 28 August 1915
Total: 1,120,000 men[2]
2,066 guns
1,425 machine guns
On 28 August 1915
Total: >1,000,000 men[3]
1,883 guns
1,471 machine guns
Casualties and losses
Total: 214,965 men[4]
18,199 KIA
74,053 WIA
122,713 MIA
Total 289,695 men[5]
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.

  1. ^ Oleynikov 2024, pp. 366–367.
  2. ^ С.Г. Нелипович, Русский фронт Первой мировой войны. Потери сторон 1915, Москва, 2022, p. 721 calculated according to: KA-AOK. Quartiermeister-Abteilung. Karton 2688. Op. 25279: karton 2718. Gstb.290 (06.09.1915); Karton 2729. Op. 902/69
  3. ^ С.Г. Нелипович, 2022, p. 721
  4. ^ С.Г. Нелипович, 2022, p. 730
  5. ^ С.Г. Нелипович, 2022, p. 721

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