[1][2][3] Sub-units of the 14th Regiment of Uhlans of the Home Army were to take part in the attack, as well as volunteers from the neighbouring villages of Czyszek, Winniczek, Gańczar, Biłki Królewska, and Dawidów and Zubrza, in the number of approximately one hundred men, under the command of Dragan Sotirović "Draży".
[1] This alerted the German soldiers, who opened inauspicious fire, however, causing the Poles to quickly retreat into the forest.
Polish soldiers walking in a line threw grenades or petrol bottles through the windows of the huts.
[5] As Jerzy Węgierski states, "about the action in Szołomyja there appeared fantastic news in conspiracy publications, in some details".
[5] According to Anna Fasntacht-Stupnicka, who researches the sources on the events in Szolomyi, the killed were the Uprising's own Ukrainians, and the local population survived by taking shelter in the Orthodox church.
Kazimierz Krajewski also considers Szołomyja to be an "UPA base", whose defenders escaped after a brief exchange of fire.
[2][6] The description of the events in Szołomyja as an attack on a heavily manned UPA outpost is disputed by Damian Markowski.
At the same time, Markowski, citing Ukrainian sources, estimates the number of victims of the attack at "at least 4, probably just civilians".