German troops and Panzer IV in the Ukraine, January 1944
Date
5-16 January 1944 (Soviet offensive phase)
Location
Kirovograd region
Result
Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union
Germany
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Konev
Otto Wöhler
Units involved
2nd Ukrainian Front
8th Army
Strength
1 January 1944:[1] - 550,000 personnel in total - 265 tanks - 127 self-propelled guns - 7,136 guns and mortars - 777 anti-aircraft guns - 500 combat aircraft
31 December 1943:[2] - 260,000 personnel in total
Casualties and losses
Exact unknown
Exact unknown
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Dnieper–Carpathian offensive
First phase
Zhitomir–Berdichev
Kirovograd
Korsun–Shevchenkovsky
Rovno–Lutsk
Nikopol–Krivoi Rog
Second phase
Proskurov–Chernovtsy
Uman–Botoșani
Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka
Polesskoe
Odessa
The Kirovograd offensive operation (Russian: Кировоградская наступательная операция),[3] known on the German side as The defensive battle in the Kirovograd area (Die Abwehrschlacht im Raum von Kirowograd),[4] was an offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Ukrainian Front against the German 8th Army of Army Group South in the area of Kirovograd in central Ukraine between 5 and 16 January 1944. It took place on the Eastern Front of World War II and was part of the wider Dnieper–Carpathian offensive, a Soviet attack against Army Group South that aimed to retake the rest of Ukraine west of the Dnieper river, which fell to Germany in 1941.
^Грылев А.Н. Днепр-Карпаты-Крым. Освобождение Правобережной Украины и Крыма в 1944 году. Москва: Наука, 1970, p. 49.
^Anlagenband zum Kriegstagebuch, A.O.K. 8, Oberquartiermeister, 1.1.44.-31.3.44. Anlage 1 zu Armeeoberkommando 8/O.Qu./Qu.1 Nr. B Nr. 15/44 geh. v. 4.1.44. Betr.: Verpflegungsstärken nach dem Stande vom 31.12.43. NARA T312, R63, F7581006.
^Грылев А.Н. Днепр-Карпаты-Крым. Освобождение Правобережной Украины и Крыма в 1944 году. Москва: Наука, 1970, p. 48.
^Unterlagen der Ia-Abteilung des AOK 8: Beschreibung der Abwehrschlacht im Raum Kirowograd, 5.-17.1.1944. TsAMO, fu. 500, inv. 12470, f. 5, p. 1.
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