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A German guard in the citadel of Kiev Fortress, 20 September 1941. The battle for Kiev itself began on 16 September with the assault of the General-Lieutenant Hans von Obstfelder XXIX Army Corps of the German 6th Army. The 71st and 296th infantry divisions were at the front of this offensive, breaking through the Soviet defensive positions.
Timoshenko Counteroffensive 13 – 17 July 1941 [3]: 13–18 Bobruysk offensive 13 July – 7 August 1941 [3]: 19 Novohrad-Volynskyi defensive 10 July – 20 August 1941 Uman defensive 15 July – 4 August 1941 Tiraspol-Melitopol defensive : 27 July – 28 September 1941 Kiev-Pryluky defensive 20 August – 26 September 1941
However, in 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, putting an end to the peacetime. The majority of major battles in the Eastern Theatre from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945 were fought between the two powers. The following timeline indicates major events taking place on the Eastern Front.
The Second Battle of Kiev was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involving three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army and its Czechoslovak units [1] and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 3 November and 22 December 1943.
To Battle: The Formation and History of the 14 Galician Waffen-SS Division 1943-1945, Helion and Co, (reprint 2007) ISBN 978-1-874622-19-2; Dr Watt, Robert. "Feeling the Full Force of a Four Point Offensive: Re-Interpreting The Red Army's 1944 Belorussian and L'vov-Przemyśl Operations". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Routledge Taylor ...
According to the plan, which was formed by December 1943, the 1st Ukrainian Front was to crush the north wing of Army Group South by a blow from Kiev to Mogilev-Podolsky. [45] At the same time, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian fronts with blows from the north, east and south were supposed to surround and destroy the Krivoi Rog-Nikopol group of ...
Ukraine’s authorities announced on 20 March last year that Russian troops had bombed an art school where about 400 people were sheltering. The city’s administration said many of those ...
The Luftwaffe remained in the Mediterranean theatre until the end of the war in May 1945. The most notable fighter unit in North Africa was Jagdgeschwader 27 that for nearly eighteen months (April 1941 – October 1942) was the only fighter unit in North Africa, although many other fighter units took part throughout the Mediterranean.