The Battle of Wlodawa was a battle fought on the Eastern Front of World War I on 15 August 1915 between the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Imperial Russian Army.
During the Russian Great Retreat, the Austrians went on the offensive in southeastern Poland, and the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army came up against the 89th Belomorsk Infantry Regiment, 74th Stavropol Infantry Regiment, 31st Alexopol Infantry Regiment, 96th Omsk Infantry Regiment (two battalions), the Lithuanian Guard Infantry Regiment, 76th Kuban Infantry Regiment, and the 23rd Nisov Infantry Regiment near the present-day trinational border with Belarus and Ukraine. The Russians initially made good progress, overwhelming the local farmland with their superior numbers.
However, the Austro-Hungarian riflemen peppered the advancing Russians with gunfire, inflicting heavy losses before Austrian-Hungarian grenadiers captured Wlodawa's central crossroads. The tide of battle gradually turned against the Russians, whose losses mounted as the Austro-Hungarian Army gradually advanced on the Russian trenches.
The Russians were ultimately forced to withdraw, but the Austro-Hungarians also suffered heavy losses during their offensive.