Rovno offensive

Rovno Offensive
Part of the Eastern Front of World War I
Great Retreat and Rovno offensive
Date 27 August – 15 October 1915 Location Rovno (Western Ukraine) Result Indecisive Central powers offensive halted End of Great Retreat in Southwest front[1]
Belligerents
Austria-Hungary	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf	Nikolai Ivanov
Units involved
I Army II Army IV Army VII Army	VIII Army IX Army XI Army
Strength
On 28 August 1915 Total: 1,120,000 men[2] 2,066 guns 1,425 machine guns	On 28 August 1915 Total: >1,000,000 men[3] 1,883 guns 1,471 machine guns
Casualties and losses
Total: 214,965 men[4] 18,199 KIA 74,053 WIA 122,713 MIA	Total 289,695 men[5] 41,205 KIA 179,394 WIA 69,096 MIA

The Rovno offensive — the operation of the Austro-Hungarian Northern armies against the armies of the Russian Southwestern Front — the so-called campaign on Rovno, or Lutsk-Rovno offensive operation. The purpose of the offensive was the liberation of Eastern Galicia, but by the end of the operation, a small part of Eastern Galicia was still held by the Russian Imperial Army.