Rovno offensive

Rovno Offensive
	Part of the Eastern Front of World War I
	; Great Retreat and Rovno offensive
Date	27 August – 15 October 1915
Location	Rovno ; (Western Ukraine)
Result	Indecisive
Belligerents
Austria-Hungary	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf	Nikolai Ivanov
Units involved
I Army; II Army; IV Army; VII Army	VIII Army; IX Army; XI Army
Strength
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
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.

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