Battle of the Strypa River

Battle of the Strypa River
Part of the Eastern Front of World War I
Russian troops advance in the forest near Okana during the battle of Strypa
Date 27 December 1915 – 26 January 1916 Location Strypa River, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) Result Central Powers victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire	German Empire  Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Dmitry Shcherbachev Platon Lechitsky	Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin Felix Graf von Bothmer
Units involved
7th army 9th army	7th army Army of the Bug Bavarian Corps
Strength
480,000	450,000
Casualties and losses
46,803 to 72,759	17,264

The Battle of the Strypa (German: Kampf auf der Strype) or Operation on the Strypa (Russian: Операция на Стрыпе) was a Russian offensive from December 27 [O.S. December 14] 1915 to January 26 [O.S. January 13] 1916, in Galicia, near the Strypa River. It ended with the victory of the Central Powers.