While the Bosnians on the heights did not come off to interfere with the Russian retreat, the Russian XIX Corps staff believed them a danger should they be reinforced by artillery. That vastly underestimated the Schlamperei of Archduke Peter Ferdinand, but on the next morning the corps ordered the brigade of reservists who had lost the heights – theoretically attached to V Corps, but as their division headquarters had remained in the Brest-Litovsk fortress no one on the ground seems to have known this – to take them back.

The Russian assault failed to dislodge the Bosnians from their hilltop – launched without artillery, just like many of the poorly-coordinated Austrian attacks, it fell apart before the reservists came within reach of the Bosnian fighting knives. But even a day later, Archduke Peter Ferdinand had done nothing to place artillery on the heights of Dub, and the Russians did not need to take the hill to secure their retreat.