By the end of 1943, on the Eastern Front of the World War II, after Stalingrad, the Don operations, Kursk and the second recapture of Kharkov, the Soviet army managed to regain control of half of the territories it had lost until then, and the southern sector of the long Easter front line stretched in the middle of Ukraine, roughly along the Dnieper River. The next major Soviet offensive in the south began in late December 1943. It was during these...
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