CASUALTY RECORD // January 30, 1918
Battle of Kruty
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 300 estimated
République nationale ukrainienne
300
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Kruty was fought near Kruty railway station, approximately 130 kilometres northeast of Kyiv, in what was then Nizhyn Povit of Chernihiv Governorate. The Ukrainian force, commanded by Averkii Honcharenko, suffered around 300 casualties against a Soviet Russian force estimated at 3,000 to 4,000 troops under Muravyov, Yegorov, and Bērziņš. The engagement took place at a moment when the newly declared Ukrainian People's Republic was struggling to defend its territory during the opening phase of the Russian Civil War, and the disparity in force sizes points to the severe disadvantage under which Ukrainian defenders operated. The battle has since carried symbolic weight in Ukrainian national memory as an instance of resistance against overwhelming Soviet pressure on the republic's northeastern approaches to Kyiv.
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