Donbass offensive (1943)

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World War II battle military offensive

The Donbass offensive (1943) was a major Soviet Red Army operation during World War II aimed at liberating the industrial Donbass region from German occupation as part of the broader Eastern Front counteroffensives.

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Label	Occurrences
Donbas strategic offensive (1943)	1
Donbass offensive (1943) canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II battle ⓘ military offensive ⓘ
aimedAt	regaining control of coal and heavy industry in Donbass ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Donbas Strategic Offensive ⓘ surface form: Donbas strategic offensive operation Donbas Strategic Offensive ⓘ surface form: Donbass strategic offensive operation
belligerent	Heeresgruppe Süd ⓘ surface form: German Army Group South Red Army ⓘ Soviet Southern Front ⓘ Soviet Southwestern Front ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ
campaign	Soviet summer offensives of 1943 ⓘ surface form: Soviet summer–autumn campaign of 1943
commander	Erich von Manstein ⓘ Ewald von Kleist ⓘ Fyodor Tolbukhin ⓘ Rodion Malinovsky ⓘ
conductedBy	Soviet High Command ⓘ surface form: Soviet High Command (Stavka)
conflict	Eastern Front ⓘ surface form: Eastern Front (World War II)
countryInvolved	Nazi Germany ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
endDate	1943-09-22 ⓘ
followed	Battle of Kursk ⓘ
followedBy	Dnieper Offensive ⓘ surface form: Lower Dnieper offensive
frontlineChange	pushed German front westward toward the Dnieper River ⓘ
liberatedCity	Gorlovka ⓘ Makeyevka ⓘ Donetsk ⓘ surface form: Stalino (now Donetsk) Luhansk ⓘ surface form: Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk)
location	Donbas ⓘ surface form: Donbass Soviet Union ⓘ Soviet Ukraine ⓘ surface form: Ukrainian SSR
objective	expulsion of German forces from eastern Ukraine ⓘ liberation of the Donbass industrial region ⓘ
participant	German 1st Panzer Army ⓘ German 6th Army ⓘ Soviet 12th Army ⓘ Soviet 2nd Guards Army ⓘ Soviet 3rd Guards Army ⓘ Soviet 51st Army ⓘ Soviet 5th Shock Army ⓘ
partOf	World War II ⓘ surface form: Great Patriotic War Soviet counteroffensives of 1943 ⓘ World War II ⓘ
precededBy	Miuss offensive ⓘ
result	Soviet victory ⓘ
startDate	1943-08-13 ⓘ
strategicSignificance	weakened German economic and military position on the Eastern Front ⓘ
theater	Eastern Front ⓘ
typeOfOperation	strategic offensive operation ⓘ
year	1943 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Donbass defensive operations (1941) → followedBy → Donbass offensive (1943) ⓘ

Nikolai Vatutin → participatedIn → Donbass offensive (1943) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Donbas strategic offensive (1943)