As part of the plan to capture Kiev on 2-5 May 1920, Polish and allied Ukrainian troops regrouped. On 8.05.1920, compact units of the 1st Legion Infantry Division and the 15th Infantry Division found themselves in Kiev - the city was in Polish hands. Jozef Pilsudski stayed briefly in Kiev on the same day. The 1st Legionnaire Infantry Division and the 15th Infantry Division crossed the bridges over the Dnieper and, within a few days, while fighting Soviet troops, formed a line of advance on the eastern side of the river, extending as far as Brovary. The Russians brought Semyon Budyonny's 1st Mounted Army near Kiev (numbering some 20,000 men, 3 air squadrons, 4 armoured trains, 84 armoured vehicles and artillery). The Soviet offensive began on 27.05.1920, the reconstituted XII Army and the Soviet Fasty Battle Group joined the offensive, initially without success, but then Budionny's Horse Army broke the front. 8.06.1920 r. Jozef Pilsudski decided to withdraw the Polish troops from Kiev. On 10.06.1920, the Polish army withdrew to Korosteń.

In the Bajkowa cemetery there is a quarter of Polish soldiers killed in these battles - 114 soldiers are buried here. The quarters were arranged in 1935 by the Polish Consulate, as the only soldiers' quarters from this war in the cemeteries that were within the borders of the USSR. The Consulate had many problems maintaining order in the arranged quarters due to vandalism committed by the Soviets. A specially paid watchman was employed to protect the quarters. After the Second World War, the quarters were destroyed. In 1994, Kiev Poles from the "Zgoda" association found the burial place of Polish soldiers and a fragment of the former central monument of the quarters, with the Virtuti Militari Cross engraved on it. Thanks to the efforts of the Council for the Protection of Remembrance of Struggle and Martyrdom, a commemoration was ruled in 1998 on the site of the former quarters, covering an area of 7.5 x 3 m. The preserved main element of the former monument was set up - a slab with an image of the Virtuti Militari Cross, which was complemented by a metal cross with plaques in Ukrainian and Polish stating: "Here lie 114 soldiers of the Polish Army / fallen in the Kiev region in the spring of 1920. / in battles fought with / Ukrainian formations against the Red Army / Honour Their Memory". One original soldier's cross from 1920 has been preserved in the quarters. - It stands next to the central monument.