Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
	Part of World War II
	; Flag of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Date	1944–1960
Location	Western Ukraine (Galicia, Volyn, Polissya), Transcarpathia, Northern Bukovina, Podillya, Western Belarus
Result	Defeat of the UPA
Belligerents
Ukrainian Insurgent Army Self-defense Kushch Units (1944–1946); UPA South (1944–1946); UPA North (1944–1951); UPA West (1944–1949); Sluzhba Bezpeky (1944–1951); Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Melnyk) (to September 1944); Bukovinian Ukrainian Self-Defense Army (1944); Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army	Soviet Union Soviet partisans (1944); Destruction battalions; ; Supported by: Polish People's Republic
Commanders and leaders
Stepan Bandera X; Dmytro Hrytsai ; Dmytro Klyachkivsky †; Roman Shukhevych †; Mykola Lebed; Vasyl Sydor †; Vasyl Kuk Andriy Melnyk; Mykola Kapustiansky; Taras Bulba-Borovets	Joseph Stalin; Lavrentiy Beria; Nikita Khrushchev; Vsevolod Merkulov; Viktor Abakumov; Ivan Serov; Nikolai Vatutin †; Pavel Sudoplatov; Timofei Strokach; Pavlo Meshyk
Casualties and losses
Ukrainian Insurgent Army:; more than 155,000 killed ; 130,000–200,000 arrested	Soviet Union:; 8,340 State Security officers and servicemen killed; According to other data: 25,000 State Security officers and servicemen killed; 30,000 Soviet officials killed.

The Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, (UPA - the initials of the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya) was a guerrilla war waged by Ukrainian nationalist partisan formations against the Soviet Union in the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR and southwestern regions of the Byelorussian SSR, during and after World War II.

With the Red Army forces successful counteroffensive against the Nazi Germany and their invasion into western Ukraine in July 1944, UPA resisted the Red Army's advancement with full-scale guerrilla war, holding up 200,000 Soviet soldiers, particularly in the countryside, and was supplying intelligence to the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) security service.

One major UPA victory against the Soviet Union was the killing of a high ranking Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin.

According to Soviet documents during the conflict a total of 153,000 people were killed, 134,000 arrested and 203,000 deported by the Soviet authorities, mostly in the years 1944–45. At the same time, OUN-UPA killed 30,676 people (in the years 1944–1953), and 8,340 of them were soldiers.

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