Shooting in Stavyshche on December 17, 1919 - The 1st winter campaign of the Army of UPR

On December 6, 1919, the First Winter Campaign of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic began. Excerpt from the memoirs of centurion Pуекщ Dyachenko "Black Zaporozhians. Memoirs of the commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Black Zaporizhia Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic: On December 13, the regiment moved in the direction of Tarascha. On the way, our patrols hunted down the Denikin "state guard" and eliminated it. Having reached the village In Yurkivka, which is 6 km from Stavyshche in the Tarascha district, the regiment rested, because the horses and Cossacks were exhausted. For more than a month, almost without rest, we kneaded the swamp, and the piercing rain poured like through a sieve on the summer-dressed Cossacks. An uprising began in the Kyiv region. The insurgents beat, disarmed and expelled demoralized Moskals from their districts, and here we started to manage in their village as if at home. In such conditions, Dobramiya began its retreat. On December 17, we received information from our patrols and villagers that military units and camps of Denikinites had been marching from Stavyshch for the second day. Having ordered to select 15 Cossacks on the best horses from hundreds and to take 4 light machine guns, I led them to Stavishche. There was a fair in the town. The enemy did not expect an advance and met the cavalry only with machine-gun fire, but in a couple of minutes, we already broke into the town in horse formation. The first shots from a machine gun killed one of our best Cossacks, Bunchuzhny Ivan Dubina from Lokhvytsky District, Poltava Oblast. The enraged Cossacks cut down the machine gunners and the volunteers who jumped under the sabre. 3 heavy machine guns, 30 wagons with various properties, up to 40 officers, some of them with women, and two dozen soldiers were captured. I ordered the prisoners to be taken to the regimental headquarters in Yurkivka. Soon, a car with the Denikin general [Mykola Bredov] drove into the square, where our Cossacks were running, which, without delay, moved at full speed to the exit. I also let my horse and half a dozen Cossacks follow. There were already some 50 meters left to the car, a little more - and, probably, the entire store of pistols would go to the frightened passengers. It didn't go well - a horseshoe broke in - and I moved along the water with my favourite mare. All wet, he began to raise the "saber". Having made sure that not the bullet, but only the horseshoe was to blame for everything, and that my pet was whole and healthy, he began to check himself as well. Cossacks also arrived, who on their horses were far behind my Anglo-Donchan woman, who was chasing a hare a hundred meters away. The Cossacks claimed that everything was not in order, because I broke my head, and the blood mixed with the swamp. They quickly bandaged it with some kind of cloth - there were no bandages in the Ukrainian army... It was getting dark when we returned to Stavysh. The hunt was over, we had to hurry to Yurkivka. Having transferred to the second horse, I galloped with a couple of Cossacks to the headquarters of the regiment to warm up and dry my wet clothes as soon as possible. Near his headquarters, he saw about two hundred Cossacks who had reached the house in which the Denikinites were captured. Khorunzhy Gaevskyi with a dozen Cossacks who escorted the prisoners, with rifles ready to fire, defended the entrance. He set the screw in motion, which quickly brought the boys to their senses - access to the house was free. The escorts breathed a sigh of relief because they would not have to shoot at their comrades. It turns out that the Cossacks wanted to take revenge for the death of the Bunchuzhian Dubina by lynching the prisoners. The next day I sent the people of Denikin together with their women to the army headquarters. During the post in Yurkivka, the regiment made raids on Stavishche several more times, as well as troubling passing units of volunteers. So we stood for eight days. Cossacks and horses rested, despite daily raids and reconnaissance. The Cossacks dressed a little at the expense of the Moskals. At that time, almost the entire Right Bank remained without power. The volunteer units hurriedly retreated to the south. There are insurgent organizations in Tarascha Oblast, Zvenigorod Oblast, Uman Oblast and further into the depths of Ukraine. The retreat of the white Muscovites was becoming catastrophic. Source: P. G. Dyachenko "Black Zaporozhians." Memoirs of the commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Black Zaporizhia Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic." Kyiv, 2010

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Рятуйте! Ютюб позначив цей епізод 1:11 як «Агресивні й дискримінаційні висловлювання»!

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Класс! Накурился и залип, очень круто!

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Дякую! А що курили?