✦ History

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.

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Battles 6

December 24, 1943 – January 14, 1944
Zhitomir–Berdichev offensive Soviet victory Erich von Manstein, Georgy Zhukov, Nikolai Vatutin
January 24 – February 17, 1944
Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy Soviet victory Cherkasy Erich von Manstein, Georgy Zhukov, Nikolai Vatutin
January 30 – February 29, 1944
Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive Soviet victory Kryvyi Rih Rodion Malinovsky, Erich von Manstein, Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin
March 6–18, 1944
Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive Soviet victory Mykolaiv Oblast Rodion Malinovsky, Petre Dumitrescu, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
March 15 – April 5, 1944
Polesskoe offensive German victory
March 26 – April 30, 1944
Odessa Offensive Soviet victory Rodion Malinovsky, Ferdinand Schörner, Petre Dumitrescu

Key commanders

Nazi Germany 10

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 Karl-Adolf Hollidt military commander Petre Dumitrescu military commander Maximilian de Angelis military commander

Soviet Union 7

Joseph Stalin military commander Rodion Malinovsky military commander Georgy Zhukov military commander Nikolai Vatutin military commander Ivan Konev military commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander

Axis 3

Erich von Manstein military commander Hermann Breith military commander Otto Wöhler military commander

Allies 3

Georgy Zhukov military commander Nikolai Vatutin military commander Ivan Konev military commander