Melitopol offensive

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Melitopol offensive
Part of the Eastern Front
Soldiers of the 4th Ukrainian Front cross the Sivash Bay into the Crimea
Date 26 September 1943 – 5 November 1943 Location Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union Result Soviet Victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Germany  Slovakia
Commanders and leaders
Fyodor Tolbukhin	Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
Casualties and losses
43,000 killed, seriously wounded, missing or captured 155,000 wounded	4,077 killed 16,681 wounded 3,591 missing Unknown captured[a][1] Unknown killed Unknown wounded 2,600 captured[2]

The Melitopol offensive was a successful Soviet offensive operation from September 26 to November 5, 1943, during the Second World War, as part of the second stage of the Battle of the Dnieper. It resulted in the liberation of Melitopol and the entire northern coast of the Sea of Azov.

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