Battle of Vilya

Battle of Vilya
Part of the Massacres of the Poles in the Volhynia and Galicia during the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict in the World War II
Kostopol district
Date 6 September 1943 Location Vilya Result Polish victory[1]
Belligerents
Home Army Soviet partisans	Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army(Polesian Sich)
Commanders and leaders
Władysław Kochański Zdzisław Ostromęcki † Franciszek Szafran	Petro Dolmatyuk Ivan Mitrynga †
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
18 or 23 killed, 2 wounded	8 Killed, 15 Wounded

The Battle of Vilya - an armed clash that took place on 6 September 1943 in the village of Vilya in Volhynia, between a detachment of the Home Army and a group of Soviet partisans made up of Poles and a detachment of the Polesian Sich.^[2][1]