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Updated: June 15, 2025
Desperate attacks made by newly arrived German troops were, however, repulsed with heavy losses to the attacking forces. Near Thumacz an attack of cavalry, who charged six deep along a front of three kilometers, was successfully repulsed by Austro-Hungarian troops. German forces drove back Russian troops south of Ugrinow, west of Tortschin, and near Sokal.
The second army meanwhile stood fulfilling its rôle of awaiting and containing any Russians that might strike in upon the south. It had advanced no more than watching bodies towards the frontier, such as the 35th Regiment of the Austrian Landwehr, which occupied Sokal, and smaller units cordonned out southward between that town and Brody.
The resistance had stiffened, especially in front of Kovel, where the Central Powers seemed to have assembled their strongest forces and were not only successful in keeping the Russians from reaching Kovel but even regained some of the ground lost in Volhynia. Southwest of Sokal they stormed Russian lines and took several hundred prisoners. Russian counterattacks were nowhere successful.
At other points on the Kovel front engagements likewise took place, though the violence of the combat had somewhat abated. West of Kolki, southwest of Sokal, and near Viczny, German forces conquered Russian positions. West and southwest of Lutsk various local engagements occurred. Here the Russians on June 30, 1916, lost fifteen officers, 1,365 men; since June 16th, twenty-six officers, 3,165 men.
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