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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 ...
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. [ 1 ] By September 1941, the German-occupied territory of Ukraine was divided between two new German administrative units, the District of Galicia of the Nazi General Government and the ...
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 ]
It was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group South under Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model. [2] In April 1944 it consisted of 1st Panzer Army and 4th Panzer Army.In the summer of 1944 it opposed the Red Army's 1st Ukrainian Front during the Lvov-Sandomir strategic offensive operation (13 July - 29 August 1944). [3]
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 ...
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.
The primary purpose of creation of the Ukrainian National Army was to integrate all the Ukrainian units fighting the Soviets under a single command. The intended size of the army, encompassing all the Ukrainian units subordinate to Oberkommando des Heeres was 220,000. However within the two months left till the end of the war, Shandruk was able ...
Pages in category "1944 in Ukraine" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Battle of Gurby; Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive; C.