Odessa-Nikolaev March

Odessa-Nikolaev March

French tanks in Odessa, 1919
DateFebruary - April 1919
LocationOdessa and Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Result Allied evacuation
Belligerents
France
Kingdom of Greece
Ukrainian People's Republic
Red Army
Green armies (after February 18)
Commanders and leaders
Philippe Henri Joseph d'Anselme (French)
Konstantinos Nider (Greece)
Nikifor Grigoriev (Ukrainian, switched sides to Red Army February 18)
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (Red Army)
Nikifor Grigoriev (after February 18)
Strength
15,000 French
2,000 Greeks

The Odessa-Nikolaev March was a campaign of the Russian Civil War that took place in Ukraine.

French and Greek troops, which had landed in Odessa on 18 December 1918, marched towards Mykolaiv and occupied the city on 31 January 1919. When the Red Army under command of Nikifor Grigoriev approached in March 1919, the allies evacuated the city between 12 and 14 March without a fight.

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