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  • Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket
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  • The Soviet victory at Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive created a large gap in the German defensive lines in Ukraine, and created conditions for the Red Army to attack in multiple directions and cut the German Army Group South in half, forcing the German army to retreat from Ukraine three months later.
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Strength
  • 59
  • 242
  • 400
  • 524
  • 1054
  • 5300
  • 58000
  • 336700
  • III Panzer Corps
  • XLVII Panzer Corps
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Partof
  • the Eastern Front of World War II
Date
  • --01-24
Commander
  • Erich von Manstein
  • Ivan Konev
  • Georgy Zhukov
  • Otto Wöhler
  • Nikolai Vatutin
  • Hermann Breith
  • Theobald Lieb
  • Wilhelm Stemmermann †
Caption
  • Tiger Is of the III Panzer Corps, February 1944
Casualties
  • 50
  • 156
  • 728
  • 30000
  • 80188
Result
  • Successful German evacuation .
Place
Conflict
  • Battle of the Korsun–Cherkasy Pocket
abstract
  • The Soviet victory at Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive created a large gap in the German defensive lines in Ukraine, and created conditions for the Red Army to attack in multiple directions and cut the German Army Group South in half, forcing the German army to retreat from Ukraine three months later.