div stylebSummary: /b. /div. pThe publication covers the strategic and front operations of Soviet troops in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War. The author proposes a new interpretation of operation and strategic planning, the course of hostilities, the operations results. The publication provides evaluation of Soviet military art in the context of the armed confrontation between the aggressor states./p, br. div style="background-color:#fdfcfc;color:#8B4513;padding:10pt;font-size:10pt;text-align:center;". bContent: /b, /div. pValerii Hrytsiuk Title...2 Contents ...3 1. The Place and Role of Ukraine in Hitler’s and Stalin’s Military Strategic Plans during War Preparations Period 1.1. The Plan Operation Barbarossa and Its Ukrainian Vector. The Strategic Deployment of German Armed Forces and its Allies in the South-Eastern Sector ...5 1.2. The Future War Plans of Soviet High Command. Start of Strategic Military Deployment in Ukraine ...8 2. Hostilities during Ukraine’s Occupation by Hitler Coalition (June 22, 1941 – July 27, 1942) 2.1. The Battle of the Frontier (June 22 - July 6, 1941) ...17 2.2. Defence Operations (Hostilities) of South-Western Military Forces in the Right-Bank Ukraine (July 10 – End of August, 1941) ...22 2.3. Defence of Kyiv, Catastrophe of the South-Eastern Front and Its Consequences ...35 2.4. Defence of Odesa, (August 5, 1941 - October 16, 1941) and Sevastopol (October 30, 1941 - July 12, 1942). Struggle for the Crimean and Taman Peninsulas (mid-September, 1941 - May 19, 1942) ...38 2.5. Operations of the South-Eastern Military Forces in the 1st Half of 1942. Barvinkovo-Lozovska Offensive Operation (January 18 - 31, 1942). Kharkiv Catastrophe (May 12 - 29, 1942) ...47 2.6. Defence Operations of Soviet Military Forces in Kupian Sector and Withdrawal behind the Oskol River (June 10 - 26, 1942). The “Klauzevitz” Operation ...48 3. Hostilities in Ukraine within Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 3.1. Donbas Offensive Operation of the South-Western and Southern Fronts (January 29 - February 18, 1943) and Kharkiv Offensive Operation of the Voronezh Front (February 2 - March 3, 1943) ...51 3.2. Defensive Operation of the South-Western and Voronezh Fronts in Donbas and Kharkiv Sectors (February 22 - March 23, 1943) ...52 4. The Soviet Offensive Operation in the Left-Bank and South of Ukraine, Capture of the Dnieper Strategic Bridgeheads within Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943 4.1. Izium –Barvinkiv Offensive Operation of the South-Western Front (July 17 - 27, 1943). Offensive Operation of the Southern Front on the Mius River (July 17 - August 2, 1943). The “Commander Rumiantsev” Belhorod - Kharkiv Strategic Offensive Operation (August 3 - 23, 1943) ...55 4.2. Chernihiv - Poltava Strategic Offensive Operation (August 26 - September 30, 1943) ...57 4.3. The Dnieper Force-Crossing ...59 4.4. Donbas Strategic Offensive Operation (August 13 – September 22, 1943) ...67 4.5. Operations of the Voronezh (the 1st Ukrainian) Front in Kyiv Sector (October 1 - December 22, 1943) ...70 4.6. The Lower Dnieper Strategic Offensive Operation of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts (September 26 - December 20, 1943) ...80 4.7. Kerch-Eltyhen Landing Operation (November 1 - December 11, 1943) ...87 5. Strategic Offensive Operation in the Right-Bank Ukraine and Liberation of Crimea within Winter-Spring Campaign of 1943 - 1944 5.1. The Dnieper-Transcarpathian Strategic Offensive Operation (December 24, 1943 - April 17, 1944) ...90 5.2. Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation (April 8 - May 12, 1944) ...95 6. Hostilities in Ukraine within Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1944. Complete Banishment of the Aggressor from Ukraine 6.1. Lviv-Sandomyr Strategic Offensive Operation (July 13 - August 29, 1944) ...109 6.2. Yassy-Kyshinev Strategic Offensive Operation (August 20 - 29, 1944) ...125 6.3. Final Liberation of Ukraine during Soviet Strategic Offensive Operation in the South-Western Sector in October, 1944 ...138 7. Summary ...150/p. br