The Battle of Zabłocie (Polish: Bitwa pod Zabłocami, Ukrainian: Бій під Заблоцями; 14 February 1944) was fought between the 348th Platoon “Kirgiz” and Battalion “Ryś” of the Peasant Battalions and Platoon “Hardy” of the Home Army under the command of Stanisław Basaj and Mieczysław Olszak against the Third Reich, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galicia” in the Hrubieszów County of the Lublin Voivodeship.

However, plans for an attack were aborted when, on the morning of 14 February, German SS forces supported by Ukrainian auxiliary police launched an offensive in the Zabłoko area.

Initially, they managed to occupy an area of several hundred metres, but the open field and heavy German fire from behind the ruins and buildings meant that the assault failed.

[3] At a critical moment for the Polish forces, the commander Ryś organised a support group, which set out to help the less well-armed partisans defending Zabłocie.

The Ryś unit, consisting of about 25 soldiers equipped with three erkaemes, reached the vicinity of the Górki colony, where fierce fighting was taking place.

The smaller group, headed by Ryś, moved to the left flank, with the intention of reaching the eastern part of the Górki colony.

The position of the German soldiers, although numerically stronger, was difficult - the right wing of the partisans, commanded by Kozak, was to close their retreat route towards Mircze.

The encircled group of German soldiers (about 50 men) was cornered in the eastern cauldron between the forces of Szczygiel from the south-east, Ryś from the east and part of the right wing of Kozak from the west.

Instead of carrying out the planned encircling manoeuvre and blocking the Germans' path of retreat from the cauldrons, Hardy's platoon mistakenly attacked its own barrage group.

Despite the partisans' initial advantage and success in several sections of the fighting, a lack of synchronisation between groups and erroneous command decisions meant that the Germans managed to avoid total defeat.