Donbass 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 Location Donets Basin Result Soviet victory Belligerents Germany Italy Hungary Romania Soviet Union Commanders and leaders Adolf Hitler Erich von Manstein Erhard Raus Edwald von Kleist Italo Gariboldi Gusztáv Jány Petre Dumitrescu Joseph Stalin Fyodor Kuznetsov Dmitri Lelyushenko Vasili Gerasimenko Filipp Golikov

Romanian military actions in World War II Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Treznea As part of the Axis (1941–1944) Bucharest München Uman Odessa Sevastopol Kerch Azov Rostov Kharkov Blue Edelweiss Stalingrad Uranus Winter Storm Little Saturn Tidal Wave Donbass Kerch-Eltigen Lower Dnieper Dniepr–Carpathian Uman–Botoșani 1st Jassy–Kishinev Crimea Lublin-Brest 2nd Jassy–Kishinev As part of the Allies (1944–1945) Turda Păuliș Debrecen Budapest Bratislava-Brno Prague

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 from Nazi invaders. 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 Army was also forced to retreat from the Kuban.^[1]

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