Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)
Army group · Soviet Union · June 22, 1941 – October 20, 1943
Soviet front in Ukraine, largely destroyed in the Kiev pocket in 1941, re-formed, and one of the pincers of Operation Uranus at Stalingrad.
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- June 23, 1941 – June 30, 1941 4th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) Under this formation at Battle of Brody (1941) (Wikipedia infobox)
- June 23, 1941 – June 30, 1941 8th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) Under this formation at Battle of Brody (1941) (Wikipedia infobox)
- June 23, 1941 – June 30, 1941 9th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) Under this formation at Battle of Brody (1941) (Wikipedia infobox)
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Movements
- June 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Dubno-Brody tank battle Map
- June 23–30, 1941 Battle of Brody (1941)
- August 7 – September 26, 1941 Battle of Kiev (1941)
- September 19, 1941 Encircled east of Kiev Map
- October 2, 1941 – January 7, 1942 Battle of Moscow
- January 31, 1942 Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive
- May 12, 1942 Second battle of Kharkov lost Map
- May 12–29, 1942 Second Battle of Kharkov
- June 28 – July 24, 1942 Battle of Voronezh (1942)
- November 19, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Serafimovich: Operation Uranus Map
- November 19–23, 1942 Operation Uranus
- December 12, 1942 – February 18, 1943 Operation Little Saturn
- February 16, 1943 Kharkov retaken, then lost Map
- February 19 – March 15, 1943 Third Battle of Kharkov
- March 3, 1943 Voronezh–Kharkov offensive
- July 17 – August 2, 1943 Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943)
- August 13 – September 22, 1943 Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)
- August 24 – December 23, 1943 Battle of the Dnieper
- October 20, 1943 Renamed 3rd Ukrainian Front on the Dnieper Map
- November 3 – December 22, 1943 Battle of Kiev (1943)
- December 24, 1943 – January 14, 1944 Zhitomir–Berdichev offensive
- December 24, 1943 – April 14, 1944 Dnieper–Carpathian offensive
- June 22 – August 19, 1944 Operation Bagration
- July 13 – August 29, 1944 Lvov–Sandomierz offensive
- September 14 – November 24, 1944 Baltic offensive
- April 16 – May 2, 1945 Battle of Berlin
- May 6–11, 1945 Prague offensive
- August 9–20, 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria