✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Dnieper–Carpathian offensive

December 24, 1943 – April 14, 1944

Result Soviet victory

The Red Army drove German forces out of most of right-bank Ukraine and reached the Carpathian Mountains. It was one of the largest Soviet offensives of the war.

Overview Contemporaries

Soviet Union

Nazi Germany

Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Kingdom of Romania
Hungary
Joseph Stalin military commander Rodion Malinovsky military commander Georgy Zhukov military commander Nikolai Vatutin military commander Ivan Konev military commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky military commander
Adolf Hitler belligerent leader Erich von Manstein military commander Géza Lakatos military commander Walter Model military commander Ferdinand Schörner military commander Erhard Raus military commander Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
c. 1,109,528
Aircraft lost
c. 676
Guns lost
7,532
Casualties
250,956
Tanks
30

Units

1st Ukrainian Front 2nd Belorussian Front 2nd Ukrainian Front 4th Ukrainian Front 28th Army (Soviet Union) 4th Guards Army 52nd Army (Soviet Union) 1st Guards Assault Aviation Corps 1st Guards Cavalry Corps 29th Tank Corps 5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union) 7th Mechanized Corps 9th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) 100th Rifle Division 116th Rifle Division 1st Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 333rd Rifle Division 395th Rifle Division 46th Rocket Division 50th Rifle Division 58th Guards Rifle Division 81st Guards Rifle Division
Army Group A Army Group Centre Army Group South 8th Army (Wehrmacht) 1st Panzer Army 2nd Army (Wehrmacht) 4th Panzer Army 6th Army (Wehrmacht) Fourth Army (Romania) Royal Hungarian Army Third Army (Romania) LII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 16th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 302nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 5th Luftwaffe Field Division 9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

Battles 6

Also involved 2