Uniform Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Over time, a network of underground workshops was organized to produce uniforms and other clothing. However, such small enterprises could not cope with the needs of the growing army, so there was always a shortage of the necessary clothing or footwear.
Therefore, the UPA units tried to be at least equally dressed, either in German or Soviet uniforms, which they were able to obtain in battles.
In the spring of 1943, a certain number of members of the auxiliary police of the Reich Commissariat "Ukraine" and the General Government, who had their own uniform of a standard model, joined the UPA. Thus, Lithuanian, Latvian, Czech uniforms appeared in the UPA, or even the uniforms of the so-called "general SS", which the police were dressed in.
Thus, by the summer of 1943, a certain appearance of UPA soldiers had developed, who wore partly civilian clothes, Soviet or German uniforms, police uniforms and self-sewn linen uniforms with the famous Mazepinkas, Petliurova, tridents on them and on belt buckles.
Later, captured uniforms were also widely used: Polish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, and sometimes even English.
It is also known that there were attempts to streamline and create a single uniform for UPA soldiers. Even designs of clothing and insignia for soldiers of Volhynia and Polissya were developed, however, available photographic documents indicate that this project remained only in written form, and in practice only individual items were implemented.