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Title
Bessarabian Nights
Description
By mid April of 1944, the southern front in Russia had seen Soviet troops on the offensive for four consecutive months. Zhukov's plan to attack beyond the Dneister River as far as Chernovtsy was approved by Stavka, with Russian troops …
Source
Publisher
Date
1944-04-01
Scenario#
7
Scenario Description
By mid April of 1944, the southern front in Russia had seen Soviet troops on the offensive for four consecutive months. Zhukov's plan to attack beyond the Dneister River as far as Chernovtsy was approved by Stavka, with Russian troops finally reaching the Carpathian Mountains and cutting off German forces in Poland from the Axis armies in Southern Russia that were now backing up into Romania. As constant harassment by partisan bands threatened both supply and communications to the forward German echelons, more and more rear-area troops were needed to quell these local upstarts.
Location
Bessarabia, Romania
Battle Narrative
The First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, named after the two major cities Iași (Jassy) and Chișinău (Kishinev) in the area, refers to a series of military engagements between 8 April and 6 June 1944 by the Soviets and Axis powers of World War II. According to David Glantz, the offensive was supposedly a coordinated invasion of Romania conducted by Red Army's 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts, in accordance with Joseph Stalin's strategy of projecting Soviet military power and political influence into the Balkans.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russians

Geolocation