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Ubľa to Kamianytsia, March 1939

Ubľa, Slovak frontier → Kamenica nad Cirochou

On 15 and 16 March 1939 Carpathian Sich detachments from the Serednie, Svaliava, Perechyn and Berezne districts fell back before the advancing Hungarian army and crossed the Slovak frontier at Ubľa, where they laid down their arms. The Slovak authorities transported them to Kamianytsia nad Sirkou, where a Ukrainian camp was formed under Captain Leonid Klymenko, reported as 500 Sich members and 20 officers.

14 to 18 March 1939

Hungary invades Carpatho-Ukraine; the Sich army of about 2,000 men resists

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Karpatská Sič

Carpathian Sich

15 to 16 March 1939

Sich detachments from four western districts cross into Slovakia at Ubľa and lay down their arms

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Contemporary appeal by the commandant of the Ukrainian refugee camp in Bratislava

March 1939

The Slovak authorities take the men to Kamianytsia, where a Ukrainian camp is formed under Captain Klymenko

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Contemporary appeal by the commandant of the Ukrainian refugee camp in Bratislava

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Karpatská Sič

Carpathian Sich

Contemporary appeal by the commandant of the Ukrainian refugee camp in Bratislava