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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 ...
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 Donbas Operation (September 29 – November 4, 1941) was a frontline defensive operation of the Soviet Red Army in the territory of Donbas on the Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe. It was an integral part of the Donbas–Rostov Strategic Defensive Operation .
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Battle for the Donbas (1919) Donbas operation (1919) World War II. Donbas operation (1941) Operation Little Saturn (1942) Operation Gallop (January 1943) Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943) Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943) Russo-Ukrainian War. War in Donbas (from 2014), a theatre of war subsumed by the 2022 Russian invasion; Battle ...
The strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II were major military events carried out between 1941 and 1945 on the Eastern Front or in 1945 in the Far East during the Second World War. Such operations typically involved at least one Front – the largest military formation of the Soviet Armed Forces .
Russia has launched its military offensive in the Donbas. Why has President Vladimir Putin refocused on eastern Ukraine, and what should we expect? NBC News takes a look.