Pedro Fiłonenko


Petro Fiłonenko, born December 12, 1896, died August 1, 1960 in Detroit) is a Ukrainian military officer, anti-Bolshevik guerrilla commander, emigration activist.

After the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered to join the Russian army. Served in 1st Cavalry Artillery Division. In 1917 he went to the so-called. Wild Division. At the end of 1917 he joined the newly formed Ukrainian army. He headed the mobilization department of the command post of Volodymyr Novgorod. In 1919 he formed a guerrilla division, fighting with the Bolshevik units on the section Korostene-Szepietówka. He entered the insurgent brigade of Atamana Sokolowski. He reached the Bolshevik captivity, but managed to escape. He created a guerrilla division, which in the spring of 1920 was incorporated into the 6th Sicher Rifle Division. Received a degree of sotnik. In the autumn of 1921 Gen. Jurko Tiutiunnyka, in the autumn of 1921, led a partisan detachment into Soviet Ukraine. After several years of fighting in August 1924, he returned to Poland, where he settled in Volhynia. After the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, he was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Liberation Army. Then the Ukrainian Free Cossack was organized by the Ukrainian partisan troops in the area of ​​Owrucza. At the end of the war he emigrated to the USA.

Biography of Petro Fiłonenki (Ukrainian)

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