Rovno offensive
| Rovno Offensive | |||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front of World War I | |||||||
Great Retreat and Rovno offensive | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Austria-Hungary German Empire | Russian Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf |
Nikolai Ivanov Platon Lechitsky Alexei Brusilov Vladimir Sakharov | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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1st Army 2nd Army 4th Army 7th Army |
8th Army 9th Army 11th Army | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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On 28 August 1915 Total: 1,120,000 men 2,066 guns 1,425 machine guns |
On 28 August 1915 Total: >1,000,000 men 1,883 guns 1,471 machine guns | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Total: 214,965 men 18,199 KIA 74,053 WIA 122,713 MIA |
Total: 289,695 men 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.