Dnieper–Carpathian offensive
1944 Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front of WW2
Dnieper–Carpathian offensive
The Dnieper–Carpathian Operation (Russian: Днепровско-Карпатская операция), known on the German side as the Defensive battles in Southern Ukraine and west of Kiev (German: Abwehrschlachten in der Südukraine und westlich Kiew), was a strategic offensive executed in right-bank, southern, and western Ukraine by the Soviet 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, along with the 2nd Belorussian Front, against the German Army Group South, most of Army Group A and parts of Army Group Center. Fought from late December 1943 to early May 1944, this campaign in the southern sector was the focal point of the entire 1944 winter-spring campaign on the Eastern Front. This was the only offensive in which all six Soviet tank armies participated at the same time, while 22 out of the 30 panzer and panzer-grenadier divisions available to the Germans on the Eastern Front in late 1943 were stationed in Ukraine. Consisting of a series of linked operations, the offensive aimed to split Army Group South and clear...
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