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  2. Crimean offensive - Wikipedia

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    The Crimean offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed at the German-held Crimea. The Red Army's 4th Ukrainian Front engaged the German 17th Army of Army Group South Ukraine , which consisted of Wehrmacht and Romanian formations. [ 5 ]

  3. Dnieper–Carpathian offensive - Wikipedia

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    Crimea is a horticulture and viticulture district. The iron ore development of the Kerch Peninsula is important. In the Crimea there are 4 large ports: Sevastopol, Feodosiya, Kerch, Yevpatoria. The capture of the right-bank Ukraine and the Crimea would open the doors for the Red Army troops to Poland, Slovakia, Romania and the Balkans. It would ...

  4. German occupation of Crimea during World War II - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, the Crimean Peninsula was subject to military administration by Nazi Germany following the success of the Crimean campaign.Officially part of Generalbezirk Krym-Taurien, an administrative division of Reichskommissariat Ukraine, Crimea proper never actually became part of the Generalbezirk, and was instead subordinate to a military administration.

  5. Crimean campaign - Wikipedia

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    German Panzer IV tank and soldiers in the Crimea, 1942. The Crimean campaign was conducted by the Axis as part of Operation Barbarossa during World War II. The invading force was led by Germany with support from Romania and Italy, while the Soviet Union took up defensive positions throughout the Crimean Peninsula.

  6. How did Ukraine strike deep inside Russian-occupied Crimea? - AOL

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    Theories abound to explain how a daring and successful attack on a Russian air base in the Crimean Peninsula was carried out.

  7. Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia - Wikipedia

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    In 1944–1945, the UPA and Home Army initiated a ceasefire and orders to cease any actions against civilians, and with mediation of Orthodox and Roman Catholic clergy a meeting was arranged between commanders of both formations. The agreement resulted in joint UPA-Home Army operation against NKVD prison in Hrubieszów. By 1948, both ...

  8. WSJ Video Analysis: The Crimea Bridge Explosion, Examined - AOL

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    An explosion that damaged the only bridge linking Russia to Crimea dealt a blow to the Kremlin and triggered a new escalation in the Ukraine war. WSJ examined footage of the blast and its ...

  9. List of invasions and occupations of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    By November they controlled almost all of what had been Soviet Ukraine, including the portion annexed in 1939. [4]: 624 Occupations: Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1941–1944), the German occupation of most of the country. [1]: 468 Transnistria Governorate (1941–1944), the Romanian occupation of Transnistria. [5] Russo-Ukrainian War