Memorial Day of the Heroes of Krut. What was the fateful battle for the freedom of Ukraine?
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Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:01:15 +0200
Ukrainian youth against Bolshevik troopsThe battle near the Kruty railway station, 130 kilometers northeast of Kyiv, went down in history as the Fight for the Future.It lasted four days and was actually able to change the course of Ukrainian history.Several hundred young Ukrainian soldiers were able to stop an enemy army ten times larger than theirs hundreds of Russian Bolsheviks were destroyed in the battle.
It was the heroic selfsacrifice of Ukrainians near Kruty that gave our diplomats time at the negotiations in Brest to achieve recognition of the independence of the UNR and receive foreign military assistance to repel RussianBolshevik aggression.
What is important to understand is that the least prepared elements of the newly formed Ukrainian army rushed to stop the Red Guard forces we are talking about several hundred Kyiv cadets, as well as students and high school students.
How the Battle of Kruty is remembered by its participantsOne of the Ukrainian soldiers, Nikifor Avramenko, who was lucky enough to survive, said that his kuren retreated after the battle and left under the cover of an armored train.Their personnel losses amounted to about 30 killed and up to 60 wounded.Despite this, as Nikifor notes, the losses of the Russian Bolsheviks were many times greater, since it was the enemy who was conducting the offensive.Another hero, Levko Lukasiewicz, recalls that by the end of the battle, the cadets had only a few bullets left.
It was a very difficult retreat.
We, the soldiers, realized that we were partially surrounded.
The ammunition was getting less and less.
Many shooters rifles jammed from overheating and stopped firing.
They, like the less experienced shooters, gave the ammunition to the better shooters, and they themselves put a bayonet on their rifles as their only last weapon, and sadly retreated under the bullets of the enemy advancing from all sides, says the Ukrainian soldier.
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