Battle under Kruty: 10 facts about how 400 Ukrainians managed to stop 4 thousand Russians (video)

Students, high school students, volunteer Cossacks opposed the Bolshevik army near Kruty, having only a bayonet and one gun. The Ukrainians lasted five hours against a tenfold enemy. Krut's heroes were bathed on January 29, 2018 for 100 km from Kiev, on the road that goes from Russia through the Chernihiv region. 107 years ago, nearly 400 Ukrainians, cadets, not trained military, suspended the promotion of the Bolshevik army. At the same time the forces of the Russians prevailed 10 times.

In modern Ukraine, they remember the feat of Kruty, remembering the current war with the Russian Federation. Heroes are compared to the "cyborgs" who kept the Donetsk airport and with the Armed Forces fighters, who in the spring of 2022 rejected the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the Kiev region. Focus gathered information about the battle, in which 400 Ukrainians were opposed to four thousand enemies.

Kruty - a railway station near Nizhyn, Kyiv region, located 100 km from the Ukrainian capital. What the heroes of Krut were described, in particular, on the portal of "Ukrainian Institute of National Memory" and in the video "Radio Liberty". 10 facts of the battle near Kruty on January 29, 1018: During the UNR, 27 Ukrainians were buried in the Askold Tomb in Kiev, who were shot dead by the Russians. During independence under Nizhyn, they created the Memorial Complex "Memory of the Krut".