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The Kirovograd offensive operation (Russian: Кировоградская наступательная операция, Ukrainian: Кіровогра́дська наступа́льна опера́ція), [5] known on the German side as The defensive battle in the Kirovograd area (Die Abwehrschlacht im Raum von Kirowograd), [6] was an offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Ukrainian Front against ...
The Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive [12] (Russian: Березнеговато-Снигирёвская Наступательная Операция, Bereznegovato-Snigirovskaya Nastupatel'naya Operatsiya) was an offensive operation conducted in southern Ukraine by the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front against the German 6th Army and Romanian 3rd Army of Army Group A, in March 1944.
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 ]
In 1944, Crimea was recaptured by the 4th Ukrainian Front during the Crimean offensive (8 April 1944 – 12 May 1944), which consisted of three sub-operations: [citation needed] Kerch–Eltigen Operation (31 October 1943 – 11 December 1943) Perekop–Sevastopol Offensive Operation (8 April 1944 – 12 May 1944)
On 18 July, renewed 1st Ukrainian Front attacks resulted in a breakthrough in the Lvov operational direction. Late in the day, the 1st Ukrainian Front spearheads met near the town of Busk. The encirclement was complete. 45,000 men of the XIII Army Corps were trapped around Brody, and a 200 km breach had been created along the Army Group North ...
The Polesskoe offensive (Russian: Полесская наступательная операция, Polesskaya nastupatelnaya operatsiya), [3] also known as the Battle of Kovel, [4] was a World War II Soviet offensive operation, launched by the 2nd Belorussian Front at the junction of Army Group South and Army Group Center, with the goal to strike deep into the flank and the rear of Army Group ...
They retook the land in 1944. [3]: 625 Operation Barbarossa Germany Romania. 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, [1]: 453, 460 in June 1941 with assistance from allied Romania. [4] By November they controlled almost all of what had been Soviet Ukraine, including the portion annexed in 1939. [3]: 624 Occupations:
It commemorates the Liberation of Ukraine from Nazi Germany on 28 October 1944. [1] The first settlements in Eastern Ukraine were liberated by the Red Army in December 1942. Major battles for the liberation of the Ukrainian SSR lasted from January 1943 to the autumn of 1944. At this time, half of Ukraine was in the hands of the Red Army.