Andrii Dolud

Andriy Dolud was a Ukrainian military figure and was Cornet General of the Ukrainian People's Army and Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian People's Army in the First Winter Campaign. He would later serve in the Ukrainian Liberation Army.

Biography

During the First World War he fought in the modern-day Ternopil Oblast as a member of the troops of the South-Western Front.

From 1917 to 1918 he was a member of the Central Council of Ukraine. On 13 November 1918, at the head of the Cossack detachment named after Ivan Honta, formed of Dnieper Ukrainians, he arrived in Lviv to help the Ukrainian Galician Army. He took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War and from the end of 1918 he commanded the Yaniv second brigade of the UGA, which distinguished itself in battles with Polish units on the outskirts of Lviv, during the Vovchukhiv Operation (Ukr) of 1919 and the Chortkiv offensive of 1919.

From December 1919 to May 1920 he was chief of staff of the UPR Army during the First Winter Campaign. During the Polish-Soviet War, he commanded the 5th Kherson Division of the UPA Army. In November 1920 he was interned with a division near Pidvolochysk. In 1921 he left for Brazil.

In 1942 he formally headed the Ukrainian Liberation Army, which was formed as part of the ground forces of the Wehrmacht. From 1943 he headed the Zaporizhzhya detachment of the Ukrainian Free Cossacks in Ost-Nachschub-Bataillon 651 as part of the Wehrmacht, which in 1945 became part of the 2nd Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army.

In 1944 he was a member of the Cossack staff of General Andrei Shkuro.

Together with Colonel Datskiv, they organized the camp for Ukrainians in Ulm. After 1945 he emigrated to Latin America.

He died on 6 September 1976 and is buried in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil