Battle of Kiev (1943)
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The Second Battle of Kiev, known on the German side as the Defensive battle in the Kiev-Zhitomir area, was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involvi
Kiev after its liberation in November 1943.
Panzer IVs in Zhitomir, November 1943
Nikolai Vatutin
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin was a Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of
Vatutin ib c. the 1940s
Vatutin (2nd from right) with officers of the Northwestern Front, February 1942
Vatutin in 1943