Battle of Vilya
| Battle of Vilya | |||||||
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| Part of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia and the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict during World War II | |||||||
Kostopol district | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Home Army Soviet partisans | Polesian Sich | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Władysław Kochański Zdzisław Ostromęcki † Franciszek Szafran |
Petro Dolmatyuk Mitrynga † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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18–23 killed 2 wounded |
8 killed 15 wounded | ||||||
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The Battle of Vilya was an armed clash that took place on 6 September 1943 in the village of Vilya in Volhynia, between a detachment of the Home Army and a group of Soviet partisans made up of Poles and a detachment of the Polesian Sich.