Solotvyn

On December 24, 1943, Soviet General Vatutine opens the first Ukrainian Front towards Zhitomir and Berdichev. The 48th German Panzer rushes to the front to stem the Soviet advance. On December 30, the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (1st SS …

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On December 24, 1943, Soviet General Vatutine opens the first Ukrainian Front towards Zhitomir and Berdichev. The 48th German Panzer rushes to the front to stem the Soviet advance. On December 30, the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (1st SS Panzer Division), which had established itself between the villages of Kodnia and Solotvyn, faces the onslaught of Soviet infantry and tanks, supported by gunfire from the Katyusha rocket launchers. For two days, the SS units supported by the Tigers of the 13th Panzerkompagnie hold the Russians back, before receiving the order to retreat onto a new line of defense.

Solotvyn, Russia

The Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, also known in Soviet historical sources as the liberation of right-bank Ukraine, was a strategic offensive executed by the Sovietist, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, along with the 2nd Belorussian Front, against the German Army Group South and Army Group A, and fought from 24 December 1943 – 17 April 1944. The battles on the right-bank Ukraine and in the Crimea were the most important event of the 1944 winter-spring campaign on the Eastern Front.

Wikipedia: Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive

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