Battle of the Dnieper facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Battle of the Dnieper
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
German soldiers fighting across the Dnieper River during battle in1943
Date 26 August 1943 – 23 December 1943 (3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) Location Dnieper River, Soviet Union Result Soviet victory Territorial changes Soviets reclaim left-bank Ukraine, including the city of Kiev and Donets basin
Belligerents
Soviet Union Czechoslovakia	Germany  Kingdom of Romania
Commanders and leaders
Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolai Vatutin Ivan Konev Rodion Malinovsky Fyodor Tolbukhin Konstantin Rokossovsky	Erich von Manstein Ewald von Kleist Günther von Kluge
Units involved
1st Ukrainian Front 2nd Ukrainian Front 3rd Ukrainian Front 4th Ukrainian Front 1st Belorussian Front	Army Group South 1st Panzer Army 4th Panzer Army 8th Army Army Group A 6th Army Army Group Center 2nd Army
Strength
26 August: 2,633,000 men 51,200 guns and mortars 2,400 tanks and assault guns 2,850 combat aircraft	1,250,000 men 12,600 guns and mortars 2,100 tanks and assault guns 2,000 aircraft
Casualties and losses
1,687,164 men 417,323 killed or missing 1,269,841 wounded or sick	281,407 men (21 August – 20 December) 47,235 killed 199,998 wounded 34,174 missing

The Battle of the Dnieper involved about four million troups (Russian and German). They fought over land and the Dnieper River totalling 870 miles for four months. Russia won.

Images for kids

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  Battle of the Dnieper

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  German soldiers manning defensive positions on the Dnieper

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  Soviet soldiers crossing the Dnieper on improvised rafts

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  Ivan Chernyakhovsky and other members of his military council on the eve of the Battle of the Dnieper, 1943

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  Soviet soldiers preparing rafts to cross the Dnieper (the sign reads "Onwards to Kiev!")

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  Soviet soldiers attacking on a lodgement in October 1943

See also

In Spanish: Batalla del Dniéper para niños