Operation Faustschlag

Operation Faustschlag
	Part of the Eastern Front of World War I
	; Austro-Hungarian troops enter Kamianets-Podilskyi, Western Ukraine with the city's iconic castle in the background
Date	18 February – 3 March 1918
Location	Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics
Result	Central Powers victory; Russian exit from the war (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk); Independence of Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine;
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Leopold of Bavaria; Max Hoffmann; Erich von Falkenhayn; Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli	Nikolai Krylenko
Units involved
Imperial German Army 10th Army; XLI Corps; Austro-Hungarian Army; Ukrainian People's Army	Group of forces in battle with the counterrevolution in the South of Russia
Strength
53 divisions	Unknown

The Operation Faustschlag ("Operation Fist Punch"), also known as the Eleven Days' War,^[1]^[2] was a Central Powers offensive in World War I. It was the last major offensive on the Eastern Front.

Russian forces were unable to put up any serious resistance due to the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. The armies of the Central Powers therefore captured huge territories in Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine, forcing the Bolshevik government of Russia to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

^ Mawdsley (2007), p. 35
^ "Lenin's speech at Extraordinary Seventh Congress of the RSDLP(B) 6th March 1918 about Political Report of the Central Committee". Retrieved 6 May 2020.

[Mawdsley4-1] Mawdsley (2007), p. 35

[2] "Lenin's speech at Extraordinary Seventh Congress of the RSDLP(B) 6th March 1918 about Political Report of the Central Committee". Retrieved 6 May 2020.

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