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| | Polish-Soviet War - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Fighting broke out in 1919, when self-organized Polish military units in Kresy ("Borderland") areas of Lithuania, Belarus and western Ukraine clashed with local communist units and Bolshevik forces attacking from the east. |
 | | The southern sector, from the Pripyat River to the town of Szczytno, was assigned to Grupa Podlaska (the Podlaska Group, later known as Grupa Poleska), commanded by General Antoni Listowski. |
 | | In the ensuing Battle of Warsaw, the Polish 5th Army under General Władysław Sikorski threw back the Russian forces near the Wkra River, and on August 16 the Polish counteroffensive reached the rear of Tukhachevsky's army, which was encircled on August 18. |
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