Pratulin

Pratulin [praˈtulʲin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rokitno, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.

[1] On 24 January 1874 the Imperial Russian Army killed a group of 13 Greek Catholics in the village.

During "Operation Barbarossa" the forest nearby was a staging point for the German 17th Panzer Division.

At 3:30am on 22 June 1941 German Panzer and motorized troops decamped from this area, crossing the Bug River and attacking the Soviet Union.

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