This day in history

1656: Muscovy and the Polish Kingdom (Rzeczpospolita) call a truce that provides for joint combat operations against Sweden and its allies.

1918: A popular assembly (viche) in Chernivtsi proclaims reunion between North Bukovyna and Ukraine.

1920: Kharkiv hosts an All-Ukrainian congress of female workers and peasants.

1921: The Ukrainian National Army under the command of Yurii Tiutiunnyk starts the Second Winter Campaign against the Bolsheviks, advancing on Ukraine from Poland.

1941: The Dormition Cathedral on the grounds of the Pechersk Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv is demolished.

1943: The First Ukrainian Front enters the final phase of the Kyiv Offensive, ending in the clearing of Kyiv of the Wehrmacht (November 6) and creating a bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnipro.

2004: Kyiv hosts official festivities commemorating the opening of the “National Museum of Histrory of the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War.”