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showed courage and heroism, 42 of them got
killed. Ukrainian community admired this
deed of Halychyna riflemen.
June- “The Brusylov Offensive” of the Russian
September army. It occupied the whole Southern
1916 Halychyna and Bukovyna. The Austrian army
lost half a million of soldiers and officers. 133
riflemen died on the hills of Lyson’ near
Berezhany. The Cross of sorrow and glory
was put there to honour heroism and losses of
USR.
November, 5 Germany and Austro-Hungary proclaimed
1916 independence of Polish kingdom from the
Polish lands of the Russian Empire. The plans
of Ukrainians to divide Halychyna into
eastern and western parts were never meant to
be. It affected Ukrainian movement as
Halychyna went under Polish influence. It
meant there was no chance to found a
separate Ukrainian state.
November The crisis of national movement on western
1916 Ukrainian lands. As a protest against Austro-
Hungarian policy, General Ukrainian
Council headed by K. Levytsky, abnegated its
powers, Y. Petrushevych headed the national
movement.

CHAPTER IV. THE MODERN HISTORY OF UKRAINE.

ТHEME 12. The Ukrainian national revolution (1917-1920).

PART І. Central Council. Ukrainian People’s Republic.
February, 23 The bourgeois-democratic revolution in

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