Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine

The Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine was a 1939 military conflict between the Kingdom of Hungary and Carpatho-Ukraine. During the invasion a series of clashes took place between the Hungarian and Polish troops against the paramilitary formations of the Carpathian Sich of Carpathian Ukraine and some Czech troops who remained in the region after the Czechoslovak army was disbanded. The war ended with the occupation and subsequent annexation of the territory of Transcarpathian Ukraine (Subcarpathian Rus') to the Kingdom of Hungary.

Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
Date14–18 March 1939 (1939-03-14 – 1939-03-18)
Location
Carpatho-Ukraine
Result Hungarian occupation and annexation
Belligerents
Invading:
 Hungary
Supported by:
 Poland
 Germany		 Defending:
 Carpatho-Ukraine
 Czechoslovakia (until 16th March)		 Supressing the Sich:
 Czechoslovakia
Commanders and leaders
Miklós Horthy
András Littay
Ferenc Szombathelyi
Miklós Kozma		 Avgustyn Voloshyn
Dmytro Kłympusz
Mychajło Kołodzinskyj †
Zenon Kossak †
Oleg Svátek
Lev Prchala		 Bohumil Mařík
Lev Prchala
Oleg Svátek
Units involved
Carpathian Group
Irregular troops		 12th Division
Border Security (StOS)
Carpathian Sich
Strength
> 25,000
Other estimates:
18,000
500 guns
50 tanks
15 aircraft
 ± 8,000
Other estimates:
2,700 (Czechoslovak)
1,500 (Ukrainian)
6 light tanks LT-35 (Czechoslovak)
4 armored vehicles OA vz.30 (Czechoslovak)
Casualties and losses
72 deaths, 164 wounded, 3 missing and 2 prisoners (official Hungarian statistics)
± 200 killed and several hundred wounded (Czechoslovak and Ukrainian estimates)		 ± 230 killed

This territory was later invaded by the Soviet Union and given to its Ukrainian SSR.

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