On April 25, 1920, the Kiev Offensive began. During the fighting in the Kyiv area, the Polesie Group of the Polish Army (General Wladyslaw Sikorski) was ordered to attack and reach the line of the Dnieper near its confluence with the Prypec. On April 26, the 9th Division seized Czernobyl, and on May 9, it captured Recyca. Six days later, Polish units reached the Dnieper.