Kirovograd Offensive

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The Kirovograd Offensive was a major Soviet Red Army operation in January 1944 that helped liberate central Ukraine from German occupation during World War II.

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instanceOf World War II Eastern Front operation
military offensive
aimedAt breaking German defensive lines west of the Dnieper
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
casualtiesSide heavy casualties on both sides
cityLiberated Kirovograd
combatant Red Army
Wehrmacht
commandedBy Ivan Konev
Rodion Malinovsky
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Germany
date January 1944
endDate 1944-01-16
followedBy Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive
frontlineShift pushed German forces westward in Ukraine
GermanUnitInvolved 11th Panzer Division
376th Infantry Division
3rd Panzer Division
historicalRegion Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
linked to: Soviet Ukraine
location Kirovohrad Oblast
central Ukraine
modernCityName Kropyvnytskyi
objective encirclement and destruction of German forces in the Kirovograd area
liberation of Kirovograd
opponentFormation 1st Panzer Army
8th Army (Wehrmacht)
Army Group South
partOf Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive
precededBy Battle of the Dnieper
result Soviet victory
significance contributed to collapse of German positions in Right-Bank Ukraine
SovietArmyInvolved 53rd Army
5th Guards Army
5th Guards Tank Army
7th Guards Army
SovietFrontInvolved 2nd Ukrainian Front
4th Ukrainian Front
startDate 1944-01-05
strategicEffect liberation of central Ukraine from German occupation
weakening of German Army Group South
tactic armored breakthrough
pincer movement
theater Eastern Front

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2nd Ukrainian Front tookPartIn Kirovograd Offensive
subject linked to: Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front