13 Facts About Volodymyr Oskilko

Volodymyr Panteleimonovych Oskilko was a Ukrainian military activist and administrator.

Volodymyr Oskilko became famous for the "Oskilko Affair".

Volodymyr Oskilko was born January 12,1892, in the village of Horodok, Rovno uyezd, in the Volyn Governorate.

Volodymyr Oskilko graduated from a gymnasium, then from a teacher's seminary.

When World War I began, Volodymyr Oskilko was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, where he had a successful career, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel.

At the beginning of 1918, Volodymyr Oskilko was appointed a commissar of the Central Rada in Rivne.

Volodymyr Oskilko was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Independists, which was critical of the Central Rada's policies.

In November 1918, Volodymyr Oskilko led an uprising against the hetman in Volyn.

Volodymyr Oskilko participated in extinguishing the Bolshevik-led Polissya Uprising that was directed against the Directorate of Ukraine and preventing the advancement of the Polish army into Volyn.

Volodymyr Oskilko handed over the document to Petlyura in Zdolbuniv, who publicly tore it apart.

Volodymyr Oskilko sent his representative to Poland with the intent to conduct peace talks.

Volodymyr Oskilko reentered politics in late 1922 as an agent of the Polish government in Volhynia, during which time he tried to break up a Jewish-Ukrainian coalition in the Polish parliamentary elections of that year.

Volodymyr Oskilko's campaign was criticized for its usage of antisemitic tropes.