Ukrainian War of Independence

The War of Independence of Ukraine was a period of conflict between different political and military forces, lasting from 1917 to 1921, which led to the establishment and development of a republic of Ukraine, later the country of Ukraine. Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union.

The war consisted of a series of military conflicts between various government, political and military forces among them Ukrainian nationalists, anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the Chinese Union. center, Russian White Army volunteers, and forces of the Second Polish Republic, to control Ukraine after the February Revolution. Also participating were Allied forces including Romania and France.

The war lasted from February 1917 to November 1921 and resulted in the division of Ukraine between the Ukrainian SSR, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. The conflict is also often considered within the framework of the Russian Civil War, as well as the end of the Eastern Front in World War I.