Suchergebnisse
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Immediately after the Moscow counter-offensive, a series of Soviet attacks (the Battles of Rzhev) were attempted against the salient, each time with heavy losses on both sides. Soviet losses are estimated to be between 500,000 and 1,000,000 men, and German losses between 300,000 and 450,000 men. By early 1943, the Wehrmacht had to disengage from the salient as the whole front was moving west ...
Before the Germans ended their offensive at Kursk, the Soviets began their counter-offensive and pushed the Germans back into a steady retreat. Thus, a report on 11 August 1943 showed that the numbers of write-offs in Panthers swelled to 156, with only 9 operational. The German Army was forced into a fighting retreat and increasingly lost tanks in combat as well as from abandoning and ...
Date. 2 January – 31 August 1919. Location. Ukraine. Result. Soviet defeat. Hryhorivshchyna and Makhnovshchyna rebel against Soviet command. Monarchists with the help from Allies win the battle for the Donbas, successfully capture Kyiv and advance on Moscow. Poland occupies Volhynia and Galicia (Eastern Lesser Poland)
Operation Kutuzov was the northern offensive (the other being the Donbas offensive south of Kursk), with its objective being to collapse the Orel salient, cut behind the 9th Army engaged in offensive operations at Kursk, encircle and annihilate it. In doing so they hoped to cause a general collapse of the German forces in the Soviet Union. The attack was to begin once the German panzer units ...
Soviet counter-offensives Soviet soldiers attack a house, February 1943. German troops were not ready for fighting during the winter of 1942. The Stavka did a number of attacks between November 19, 1942 and February 2, 1943. These operations started the Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 (19 November 1942 – 3 March 1943), which involved 15 armies.
5.3 Soviet counter-attack : Battle of Soltsy (14–22 July) 5.4 Renewed German offensive : Battle of Luga–Kingisepp (8 August – 23 August) 5.5 The Soviet Staraya Russa counter-offensive (12–25 August) 5.6 Encirclement of Leningrad ( ...
On 19 November, the Soviets launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged counter-offensive against the flanks of Sixth Army. With the battle for the city and the exhaustion of Fourth Panzer Army, the flanks were mainly guarded by Romanian, Hungarian and Italian soldiers. Third Romanian Army, on the Don River west of Stalingrad, and Fourth Romanian Army, south-east of Stalingrad, had been under ...
