Battle of Lwów (1941)

The Battle of Lwów was a World War II battle for the control over the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) between the Red Army and the invading Wehrmacht and the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.

For other battles fought for the city of Lwów, see Battle of Lwów (disambiguation).
Battle of Lwów
Part of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front of World War II
Date22–30 June 1941
Location
Lwów, Soviet-occupied Poland
49°50′33″N 24°01′56″E
Result

German–OUN victory

  • Subsequent pogroms
  • Massacre of Lwów professors
Belligerents
 Germany
Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists		  Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
Yaroslav Stetsko		 Ivan Muzychenko
Nikolai Dyatlov
Strength
17th Army
OUN marching groups		 6th Combined Arms Army
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