Middle Don offensive

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World War II battle military offensive

The Middle Don offensive was a major Soviet Red Army operation during the winter of 1942–1943 that helped shatter Axis forces on the Eastern Front and contributed to the broader turning of the tide against Germany in World War II.

Aliases (2)

Middle Don offensive operation ×1
Middle Don operation ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II battle → military offensive →
alsoKnownAs	Middle Don offensive operation → Middle Don operation →
belligerent	Hungary → Kingdom of Italy → Nazi Germany → Romania → Soviet Union →
combatantCommander	Fedor Tolbukhin NERFINISHED → Filipp Golikov NERFINISHED → Giovanni Messe → Gustav Jány → Italo Gariboldi → László Csatay → Nikolai Vatutin NERFINISHED → Petre Dumitrescu →
conflict	Eastern Front (World War II) →
country	Soviet Union →
effect	contributed to turning of the tide against Germany on Eastern Front → facilitated Soviet advances in southern Russia → weakened Axis front between Voronezh and Rostov →
endTime	1943-02-06 →
followedBy	Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive → Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive →
location	Don River → Middle Don River region → Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh area → Voronezh Front sector → southwestern Russia →
objective	to collapse the Italian 8th Army → to destroy Axis forces on the Middle Don → to encircle and destroy Hungarian 2nd Army units →
opponent	Axis powers →
outcome	Axis strategic setback on Eastern Front → destruction of large parts of Italian 8th Army → heavy losses for Hungarian 2nd Army →
participant	18th Separate Rifle Corps → 3rd Guards Army → 40th Army (Soviet Union) → Hungarian 2nd Army → Italian 8th Army → Romanian 3rd Army → Southwestern Front → Voronezh Front →
partOf	Eastern Front (World War II) → Red Army winter counteroffensives 1942–1943 → Soviet winter campaign of 1942–1943 →
result	Soviet victory →
startTime	1942-12-16 →
temporalRelation	concurrent with Battle of Stalingrad →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Middle Don offensive ("Middle Don operation") → Middle Don offensive ("Middle Don offensive operation") →	alsoKnownAs
Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943 →	hasPart