# List of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic

This is a list of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic. The battles conducted by the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR, UNR) were part of a complex of simultaneously fought wars at the tail of World War I, including the Ukrainian War of Independence, the Russian Civil War, the Ukrainian–Soviet War, the Polish–Ukrainian War (primarily conducted by its ally, the West Ukrainian People's Republic and its Ukrainian Galician Army), and the Polish–Soviet War (in which the UPR was allied with the Second Polish Republic).
Dates are in New Style, unless stated otherwise.
| Date | Battle | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
| 8–13 November 1917 | Kiev Bolshevik Uprising | Bolshevik Revkom Kiev Ukrainian People's Republic | Kiev Military District | Bolshevik–UPR victory |
| 30 November – 1 December 1917 | Odesa Arsenal November Uprising | Ukrainian People's Republic | Red Guards | UPR victory |
| 11 – 12 December 1917 | Kiev November uprising (1917) | Ukrainian People's Republic | Bolshevik Revkom Kiev | UPR victory |
| 19 December 1917 – 10 January 1918 | Occupation of Kharkiv (1917) | Ukrainian People's Republic | Soviet Russia Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets | Soviet victory |
| 25 December 1917 – 2 January 1918 | Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising | Ukrainian People's Republic | Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets | Soviet victory |
| End December 1917 – March 1918 | Battle of Zhmerynka | Ukrainian People's Republic Austria-Hungary | Soviet Russia | UPR–AH victory |
| 9–11 January 1918 | Ekaterinoslav Bolshevik uprising | Ukrainian People's Republic | Bolshevik Revkom Yekaterinoslav | Bolshevik victory |
| 27 – 30 January 1918 | Odessa Bolshevik uprising | Ukrainian People's Republic | Bolshevik Rumcherod | Bolshevik victory |
| 29 or 30 January 1918 | Battle of Kruty | Ukrainian People's Republic | Soviet Russia | UPR victory |
| 29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918 | Kiev Arsenal January Uprising | Ukrainian People's Republic | Bolshevik Red Guards | UPR victory |
| 19 January 1918 — 20 January 1919 | Occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks | Ukrainian People's Republic | Soviet Russia | Soviet victory |
| 5–8 February 1918 | Battle of Kiev (1918) | Ukrainian People's Republic | Soviet Russia | Soviet victory |
| 18 February – 3 March 1918 | Operation Faustschlag | German Empire Austria-Hungary Ukrainian People's Republic | Russian Soviet Republic Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets | German–AH–UPR victory |
| 13–25 April 1918 | Crimea Operation (1918) | German Empire Ukrainian People's Republic Crimean People's Republic | Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic | German–UPR–Crimean victory |
| 29–30 April 1918 | 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état | Ukrainian People's Republic Central Rada | Hetmanate movement [uk] German Empire | Hetmanate victory |
| 16 November – 15 December 1918 | Anti-Hetman Uprising | Ukrainian People's Republic Directorate Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine Green armies  Russian SFSR Left Socialist-Revolutionaries | Ukrainian State Hetmanate movement [uk] Volunteer Army Imperial German Army | UPR victory |
| 18 November 1918 | Battle of Motovilivka | Ukrainian People's Republic | Hetmanate movement [uk] | UPR victory |
| 18 November 1918 – March 1919 | Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 | Russian State (1918–1920) Estonia Latvia Lithuania Belarusian Democratic Republic Second Polish Republic Kingdom of Romania Ukrainian People's Republic French Third Republic United Kingdom Ober Ost Finnish, Danish, and Swedish volunteers | Russian SFSR Soviet Estonia Soviet Latvia Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR Provisional Polish Rewkom Ukrainian SSR Finnish Red Guards | Soviet victory in Eastern Belorussia Soviet defeat in the Baltic states and Western Belorussia Start of the Polish–Soviet War |
| 2 January – 31 August 1919 | 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine | Nationalists Ukrainian People's Republic West Ukrainian PR Independent Medvyn Republic Kholodny Yar Republic White movement & Allies South Russia Crimean Regional Govt French Third Republic Kingdom of Greece Second Polish Republic | Soviets Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Crimean SSR Communist partisans Green Army Hryhorivshchyna Makhnovshchyna | Soviet defeat Hryhoriv and Makhnov partisans rebel against Soviet command Whites with Allied help win in the Donbas, capture Kiev and advance on Moscow Poland occupies Volhynia and Galicia |
| 7 January – 1 February 1919 | Khotyn Uprising | Ukrainian and Moldovan insurgents Supported by: Committee for the Salvation of Bessarabia Volunteer Army (logistical support)  Ukrainian People's Republic | Kingdom of Romania | Romanian victory |
| 18 January – 5 February 1919 | Battle of Kiev (January 1919) | Ukrainian People's Republic | Russian SFSR | Soviet victory |
| 31 August 1919 | Capture of Kiev by the White Army | Ukrainian People's Republic  Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR | South Russia (White Army) Armed Forces of South Russia | AFSR victory |
| 6 December 1919 – 6 May 1920 | First Winter Campaign | Ukrainian People's Republic | Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR South Russia | UPR victory |
| 15 April 1920 | Battle of Voznesensk (1920) | Ukrainian People's Republic | Russian SFSR | UPR victory |
| 25 April – July 1920 | Kiev offensive (1920) | Second Polish Republic Ukrainian People's Republic | Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR | Soviet victory |
| 12–25 August 1920 | Battle of Warsaw (1920) | Second Polish Republic Ukrainian People's Republic | Russian SFSR Byelorussian SSR Ukrainian SSR | Polish–UPR victory |
| October – November 1921 | Second Winter Campaign | Ukrainian People's Republic | Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR | Soviet victory |