Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)

Donbass Strategic Offensive
	Part of Eastern Front
	; Map of the Donbass Offensive (in German)
Date	13 August 1943 – 22 September 1943; (1 month, 1 week and 2 days)
Location	Donets Basin
Result	Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Fyodor Tolbukhin; Rodion Malinovsky	Erich von Manstein; Karl-Adolf Hollidt; Eberhard von Mackensen
Units involved
Southern Front; Southwestern Front	Army Group South 6th Army 1st Panzer Army
Strength
1,053,000 men; 1,257 tanks and assault guns; 21,000 guns and mortars; 1,400 combat aircraft	Unknown
Casualties and losses
273,522 men 66,166 killed, captured or missing 207,356 wounded or sick 886 tanks and assault guns destroyed; 814 guns and mortars; 327 aircraft	28,940 men (11 August – 20 September) 4,721 killed 21,234 wounded 2,985 missing

The Donbass Strategic Offensive was a strategic operation of the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II with the goal of the liberation the Donbass. As a result of the Soviet victory, the contribution of the important economic region no longer benefited Nazi Germany, and by 1944 the Soviet Union had restarted its industrial operations in the region. As a byproduct of the Soviet offensive, the German forces was also forced to retreat from the Kuban.

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Frieser et al. 2007, p. 351.
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Bibliography

Frieser, Karl-Heinz; Schmider, Klaus; Schönherr, Klaus; Schreiber, Gerhard; Ungváry, Kristián; Wegner, Bernd (2007). Die Ostfront 1943/44 – Der Krieg im Osten und an den Nebenfronten [The Eastern Front 1943–1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts] (in German). Vol. VIII. München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. ISBN 978-3-421-06235-2. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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