 Over half of the 400 men were killed during the battle, which lasted up to five hours.In the Soviet historiography the battle is mistakenly dated on January 29, 1918 and confused with the Plysky rail station skirmish ().The Haidamaka Kish of Symon Petlyura (300 soldiers) that rushed to reinforce the Kruty garrison and was delayed due to the Darnytsia railworkers sabotage stopped in close vicinity (rail station Bobryk) and eventually turned back to Kyiv due to the Bolshevik's Arsenal Uprising that occurred on the same day.