Kirovograd offensive

Kirovograd offensive
German troops and Panzer IV in Ukraine, January 1944
Date 5-16 January 1944 (Soviet offensive phase) Location Kirovograd region Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Konev	Otto Wöhler
Units involved
2nd Ukrainian Front	8th Army:[1] - XI Army Corps - XXXXVII Panzer Corps - LII Army Corps - GHQ units directly subordinated to the army
Strength
1 January 1944:[2] - 550,000 personnel in total - 265 tanks - 127 self-propelled guns - 7,136 guns and mortars - 777 anti-aircraft guns - 500 combat aircraft	Personnel strength on 31 December 1943:[3] - 260,000 personnel in total AFV status on 1 January 1944[4] Operational: - 110 tanks - 62 assault guns - 71 self-propelled AT guns and artillery pieces In short-term repair: - 132 tanks - 15 assault guns - 35 self-propelled AT guns and artillery pieces
Casualties and losses
Exact unknown	Exact unknown

The Kirovograd offensive operation (Russian: Кировоградская наступательная операция, Ukrainian: Кіровогра́дська наступа́льна опера́ція),^[5] known on the German side as The defensive battle in the Kirovograd area (Die Abwehrschlacht im Raum von Kirowograd),^[6] was an offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Ukrainian Front against the German 8th Army of Army Group South in the area of Kirovograd in central Ukraine between 5 and 16 January 1944. It took place on the Eastern Front of World War II and was part of the wider Dnieper–Carpathian offensive, a Soviet attack against Army Group South that aimed to retake the rest of Ukraine west of the Dnieper river, which had been occupied by Germany in 1941.