Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine

Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
Date 13–18 March 1939 (1939-03-13 – 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[1] Irregular troops	12th Division[1] Border Security (StOS)[1] Carpathian Sich[1]
Strength
> 25,000[2] Other estimates: 18,000[1] 500 guns 50 tanks 15 aircraft	± 8,000[2] Other estimates: 2,700 (Czechoslovak)[1] 1,500 (Ukrainian)[1] 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)[3] ± 200 killed and several hundred wounded (Czechoslovak and Ukrainian estimates)[3]	1,500 killed and wounded[4]	4,500 ukrainian civilians dead[5]

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.^[6]

This territory was later invaded by the Soviet Union and integrated into its Ukrainian SSR.