# Attack on the Town of Kryvichy

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/attack-on-the-town-of-kryvichy/
- Published: 1924-05-22T18:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T14:45:36+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/napad-na-miastechka-kryvichy.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/napadyeniye-na-myestyechko-krivichi.md

> A band of thirty armed men robbed a town 30 versts from the border, killed two policemen and went off with the loot toward the Soviet frontier.

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The Vilnia papers write: on the 18th of this month, at 8 o'clock in the evening, a band of 30 men armed with carbines, revolvers and hand grenades attacked the town of Kryvichy, which lies 30 versts from the Soviet border. They surrounded the town and cut all the telegraph and telephone wires. Having seized all the roads out of the town, the bandits began to rob its inhabitants. The first victim was Father Wesołowski. A second group attacked the police post; 2 policemen were killed and one wounded. Having robbed all the wealthier inhabitants, the bandits carried everything off on 14 carts to the border of the U.S.S.R.