power in eastern galicia to the ukrainians, this was to be confirmed by the austrian governor carl von guinrefused, saying no i received no message from vienna, god refused. a few days earlier it had already been agreed that lviv would become polish until the ukrainian elite led by petrushevych counted on a legal and peaceful takeover of state power. the leaders of austria-hungary together with the polish agreed on their own. if we do not capture lviv this night, then tomorrow he will be taken by the poles , the young and ardent popular among the sich riflemen, captain dmytro vitovskyi, emotionally declared here in the walls of the people's house at a meeting of the ukrainian national council and the central military committee, he convinced everyone not to waste time and wait for the arrival of the polish government delegation to lviv, and immediately take power in the city into their own hands. well, in lviv itself, it began. at 4 in the morning, the very decision about the armed uprising, about the armed rank, it was very timely and weighty, and it turned the situation around , that is, i