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With the Battle of Kursk raging to the north, and significant reserves pulled from both 1st Panzer and Sixth Armies to allow for such a grand offensive, the German situation in the Donbas area was not particularly solid. 1st Panzer Army under von Mackensen had no Panzer divisions at its disposal, and instead had nine infantry divisions that had been thinned significantly for Manstein's push on ...
The First Donbas strategic offensive, also known as the Mius-Donets Offensive, [13] was a military campaign fought in the Donets Basin from 17 July to 2 August 1943, between the German and Soviet armed forces on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Germans contained the Soviet offensive in its northern portion after initial gains and pushed ...
German and Romanian forces defeated the remnants of the Southern Front of the Red Army, reached the Sea of Azov and entered the Crimea, and occupied the southwestern part of Donbas. In early November, the 1st Panzer Group of the Wehrmacht resumed the offensive on Rostov-on-Don (Rostov Defensive Operation).
Demyansk Offensive (1943) Demyansk Pocket; Battle of the Dnieper; Dnieper–Carpathian offensive; Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943) Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943) Operation Doppelkopf; Battle of the Dukla Pass
Known to the German side as the Donets Campaign, and in the Soviet Union as the Donbass and Kharkov operations, the German counterstrike led to the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod. As the German 6th Army was encircled in the Battle of Stalingrad , the Red Army undertook a series of wider attacks against the rest of Army Group South.
The Mius-Front was a heavily fortified German Nazi defensive line along the Mius River in the Donbas region of the Soviet Union and Ukraine during World War II. It was created by the Germans in October 1941, under direction of General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. By the summer of 1943, the Mius-Front consisted of three defense lines with a ...
The German commanders had been wary of such an attack and forces were quickly withdrawn from the Kursk offensive to meet the Soviet offensive. Operation Kutuzov reduced the Orel salient and inflicted substantial losses on the German military, paving the way for the liberation of Smolensk . [ 325 ]
German troops advanced in a short time from 150 to 300 kilometers, captured the southwestern part of Donbas and reached the approaches to Rostov–on–Don. The reason for the success of the German offensive: the correct timing of the operation, the creation of powerful strike groups, the delivery of strikes at the junction of the Soviet fronts.