 Similar claims were made that when returning to Berdychiv the Bolsheviks threw out the sick and wounded from the hospital "disregarding the lives and honor of the medical personnel" and that in general the Soviet advance into Ukraine was characterized by mass killing of civilians and the burning of entire villages, especially by Budyonny's cossacks, designed to terrorise the Ukrainian population.In January 1918 in Cichinicze near Mohylow Bolsheviks shot patients and personnel of a Polish hospital.Behind Polish lines, Soviet forces hanged suspected enemies on the spot.