Battle of the Dnieper

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World War II battle battle military campaign

The Battle of the Dnieper was a major World War II Eastern Front campaign in 1943 in which Soviet forces launched a massive offensive to cross the Dnieper River and liberate much of Ukraine from German occupation.

Aliases (1)

Battle of Kiev (1943) ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II battle → battle → military campaign →
alsoKnownAs	Dnieper Offensive →
belligerent	Axis powers → Hungary → Nazi Germany → Red Army → Romania → Soviet Union → Wehrmacht →
campaignType	strategic offensive →
commanderForGermanSide	Erich von Manstein →
commanderForSovietSide	Georgy Zhukov → Ivan Konev → Rodion Malinovsky →
conflictIn	World War II →
countryAtTime	Soviet Union →
endDate	1943-12-23 →
estimatedForcesEngaged	over 4,000,000 soldiers →
estimatedSovietCasualties	very high →
followedBy	Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive →
front	Eastern Front →
involvedBranch	German Army Group Center → German Army Group South → Luftwaffe → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet Ground Forces →
keyCity	Cherkasy → Dnipro → Kiev → Kremenchuk → Zaporizhzhia →
location	Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic → Dnieper River → Ukraine →
notableOperation	Battle for the Bukrin bridgehead → Lyutezh bridgehead crossing →
objective	cross the Dnieper River → liberate Kiev → liberate Left-bank Ukraine →
partOf	Eastern Front of World War II → Soviet strategic offensive operations of 1943 →
precededBy	Battle of Kursk →
result	Soviet victory →
riverCrossed	Dnieper River →
scale	one of the largest operations in World War II →
startDate	1943-08-26 →
strategicEffect	collapse of German defensive line along the Dnieper → liberation of most of Left-bank Ukraine → set conditions for Soviet advance into Right-bank Ukraine →
timePeriod	1943 →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1st Ukrainian Front → 38th Army (Red Army) → Ivan Konev → Mikhail Shumilov → Nikolai Vatutin →	participatedIn
German 4th Panzer Army ("Battle of Kiev (1943)") → German 4th Panzer Army → Soviet Steppe Front →	operation
Battle of Kursk →	followedBy
XLVIII Panzer Corps →	notableEngagement
40th Army (Red Army) →	notableOperation