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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r963460841">@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .desktop-float-right{box-sizing:border-box;float:right;clear:right}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.vevent .status>p:first-child{margin:0}</style><table class="infobox vevent" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"><tbody><tr><th class="summary" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Mirgorod direction offensive</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Part of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a> of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>3 August 1943 – 25 August 1943</td></tr><tr><th 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Bamberg">Bamberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Kharkov" title="Second Battle of Kharkov">2nd Kharkov</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Case_Blue" title="Case Blue">Case Blue</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus" title="Battle of the Caucasus">Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rzhev,_summer_1942" title="Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942">Rzhev–Sychyovka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinyavino_offensive_(1942)" title="Sinyavino offensive (1942)">Sinyavino</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Stalingrad</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Velikiye_Luki" title="Battle of Velikiye Luki">Velikiye Luki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Mars" title="Operation Mars"><i>Mars</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Little_Saturn" title="Operation Little Saturn"><i>Little Saturn</i></a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1943</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Iskra" title="Operation Iskra"><i>Iskra</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ostrogozhsk%E2%80%93Rossosh_offensive" title="Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive">Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voronezh%E2%80%93Kharkov_offensive" title="Voronezh–Kharkov offensive">Voronezh–Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Polar_Star" title="Operation Polar Star"><i>Polar Star</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov" title="Third Battle of Kharkov">3rd Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II#June_1943" title="Bombing of Gorky in World War II">Gorky Blitz</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Kursk</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donbas_strategic_offensive_(July_1943)" title="Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943)">1st Donbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgorod%E2%80%93Kharkov_offensive_operation" title="Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation">Belgorod-Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donbas_strategic_offensive_(August_1943)" title="Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)">2nd Donbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smolensk_operation" title="Smolensk operation">2nd Smolensk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lenino" title="Battle of Lenino">Lenino</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dnieper" title="Battle of the Dnieper">Dnieper</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nevel_(1943)" title="Battle of Nevel (1943)">Nevel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1943)" title="Battle of Kiev (1943)">2nd Kiev</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1944</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dnieper%E2%80%93Carpathian_offensive" title="Dnieper–Carpathian offensive">Dnieper–Carpathian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leningrad%E2%80%93Novgorod_offensive" title="Leningrad–Novgorod offensive">Leningrad–Novgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Narva_(1944)" title="Battle of Narva (1944)">Narva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crimean_offensive" title="Crimean offensive">2nd Crimea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Jassy%E2%80%93Kishinev_offensive" title="First Jassy–Kishinev offensive">1st Jassy–Kishinev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyborg%E2%80%93Petrozavodsk_offensive" title="Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive">Karelia</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bagration" title="Operation Bagration">Bagration</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lvov-Sandomierz_Offensive" title="Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive">Lvov–Sandomierz</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Operation_Doppelkopf" title="Operation Doppelkopf">Doppelkopf</a></i></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Second_Jassy%E2%80%93Kishinev_offensive" title="Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive">2nd Jassy–Kishinev</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dukla_Pass" title="Battle of the Dukla Pass">Dukla Pass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_offensive" title="Baltic offensive">2nd Baltic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgrade_offensive" title="Belgrade offensive">Belgrade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Debrecen" title="Battle of Debrecen">Debrecen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petsamo%E2%80%93Kirkenes_offensive" title="Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive">Petsamo–Kirkenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courland_Pocket" title="Courland Pocket">Courland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gumbinnen_Operation" title="Gumbinnen Operation">Gumbinnen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budapest_offensive" title="Budapest offensive">Budapest</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1945</dt></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Vistula%E2%80%93Oder_offensive" title="Vistula–Oder offensive">Vistula–Oder</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Carpathian_offensive" title="Western Carpathian offensive">Western Carpathian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Prussian_offensive" title="East Prussian offensive">East Prussia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesian_offensives" title="Silesian offensives">Silesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Breslau" title="Siege of Breslau">Breslau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Solstice" title="Operation Solstice"><i>Solstice</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Pomeranian_offensive" title="East Pomeranian offensive">East Pomerania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Spring_Awakening" title="Operation Spring Awakening">Lake Balaton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moravia%E2%80%93Ostrava_offensive" title="Moravia–Ostrava offensive">Moravia–Ostrava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vienna_offensive" title="Vienna offensive">Vienna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bratislava%E2%80%93Brno_offensive" title="Bratislava–Brno offensive">Bratislava–Brno</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin" title="Battle of Berlin">Berlin</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague_offensive" title="Prague offensive">Prague</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prague_uprising" title="Prague uprising">Prague uprising</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev">Polkovodets Rumyantsev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgorod-Bogodukhov_Offensive_Operation" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgorod-Bogodukhov Offensive Operation">Belgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgorod-Kharkov_Offensive_Operation" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive Operation">Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk_order_of_battle" title="Battle of Kursk order of battle">Order of Battle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The <b>Mirgorod direction offensive</b> (3 August 1943 – 23 August 1943) was an operation conducted as part of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Polkovodets_Rumyantsev" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev">Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> forces in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. It was one of the operations that followed the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Battle of Kursk</a>. In the offensive, the Red Army pushed through the Wehrmacht lines after the Wehrmacht retreated after the Battle of Kursk. It represented a turning point on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prelude">Prelude</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mirgorod_direction_offensive&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Prelude"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Battle of Kursk</a>, German <a href="/wiki/Tank" title="Tank">armored units</a> south of the <a href="/wiki/Kursk" title="Kursk">Kursk</a> salient failed to penetrate the defences between the <a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Voronezh Front">Voronezh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steppe_Front" title="Steppe Front">Steppe Fronts</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a> sector on 8 July. The <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Operation_Polkovodets_Rumyantsev" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev">Belgorod-Kharkov Strategic Counter-Offensive</a> followed <a href="/wiki/Operation_Citadel" title="Operation Citadel">Operation Citadel</a> and included as its objectives the immediate liberation of <a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a>, assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Voronezh Front">Voronezh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steppe_Front" title="Steppe Front">Steppe Fronts</a>. On 23 July 1943, German forces of the <a href="/wiki/XLVIII_Panzer_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="XLVIII Panzer Corps (Germany)">XLVIII Panzercorps</a> and <a href="/wiki/LII_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="LII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">LII Armeecorps</a> returned to their old, well fortified positions, stretching to some 60 kilometres west of <a href="/wiki/Tomarovka" title="Tomarovka">Tomarovka</a>. Their combat strength had been reduced by as much as 50% following the Battle.<sup id="cite_ref-III_Panzerkorps_Page_260_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-III_Panzerkorps_Page_260-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_of_Kursk,_southern_sector.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Battle_of_Kursk%2C_southern_sector.png/350px-Battle_of_Kursk%2C_southern_sector.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Battle_of_Kursk%2C_southern_sector.png/525px-Battle_of_Kursk%2C_southern_sector.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Battle_of_Kursk%2C_southern_sector.png/700px-Battle_of_Kursk%2C_southern_sector.png 2x" data-file-width="1023" data-file-height="645" /></a><figcaption>Advance towards <a href="/wiki/Hadiach" title="Hadiach">Hadiach</a> (Gadac) and Mirgorod beyond. </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Battle">The Battle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mirgorod_direction_offensive&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Battle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early on 3 August 1943, after a heavy <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">Artillery</a> barrage which lasted <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">2<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> hours and overwhelming Soviet air support, the Forces of the <a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Voronezh Front">Voronezh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steppe_Front" title="Steppe Front">Steppe Fronts</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note1a"><a href="#ref_Note1a"><b><sup>a</sup></b></a></span> from the <a href="/wiki/Kursk" title="Kursk">Kursk</a>-<a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a> highway began advancing on a wide front between <a href="/wiki/Sumy" title="Sumy">Sumy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vovchansk" title="Vovchansk">Vovchansk</a> (175 km), crossed the <a href="/wiki/Vorskla_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Vorskla River">Vorskla river</a> and quickly penetrated the <a href="/wiki/Hedgehog_defence" title="Hedgehog defence">defences</a> of the <a href="/wiki/332nd_Static_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="332nd Static Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">332nd Infantry Division</a> (north of Tomarovka) and <a href="/wiki/167th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="167th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">167th Infantry Division</a> to a depth of 100 km<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note2b"><a href="#ref_Note2b"><b><sup>b</sup></b></a></span> between <a href="/wiki/Tomarovka" title="Tomarovka">Tomarovka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a> on the northern flank, and as far as <a href="/wiki/Okhtyrka" title="Okhtyrka">Okhtyrka</a>.<br /> West of <a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a> <a href="/wiki/6th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">6th Panzer Division</a> deployed hurriedly and counter-attacked the penetration in the <a href="/wiki/167th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="167th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">167th Infantry Division</a> area but was unable to halt the Soviet flood. <a href="/wiki/502nd_Heavy_Tank_Battalion_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="502nd Heavy Tank Battalion (Germany)">Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502</a> and <a href="/wiki/19th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="19th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">19th Panzer Division</a> were also swept aside by the strength of the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note3c"><a href="#ref_Note3c"><b><sup>c</sup></b></a></span> These <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">divisions</a> were good quality units and not badly understrength for this period of the war on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a>, but the enormous weight of Soviet firepower, mass of infantry and hundreds of tanks simply overran them. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Tomarovka" title="Tomarovka">Tomarovka</a> German units threatened with encirclement retreated along a narrow corridor to <a href="/wiki/Grayvoron" title="Grayvoron">Grayvoron</a>. The shattered formations of <a href="/wiki/LII_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="LII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">LII Armeecorps</a> began a harrowing fight through the Russians toward the southwest and their own lines, desperately searching for a gap in the quickly closing noose. All the while Soviet aircraft were descending upon the retreating columns, wreaking confusion and destruction. To counter the breakthrough at the boundary of his armies <a href="/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein" title="Erich von Manstein">Manstein</a> gathered his armour from all other areas. By 5 August 1943 the 4 <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">divisions</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note4d"><a href="#ref_Note4d"><b><sup>d</sup></b></a></span> of the <a href="/wiki/III_Panzer_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="III Panzer Corps (Germany)">III Panzercorps</a> were deploying north and west of <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a> to counterattack the eastern flank of the Russian armoured spearheads driving towards <a href="/wiki/Bohodukhiv" title="Bohodukhiv">Bohodukhiv</a>. </p><p>At the same time <a href="/wiki/4th_Panzer_Army" title="4th Panzer Army">4th Panzerarmee</a>'s <a href="/wiki/XXIV_Panzer_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="XXIV Panzer Corps (Germany)">XXIV Panzercorps</a> prepared to attack the western flank with <a href="/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fdeutschland_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Großdeutschland Division">Großdeutschland Panzergrenadier Division</a>. <a href="/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein" title="Erich von Manstein">Manstein</a> planned to use his panzer divisions to slice through the communication lines of the lead Soviet mobile units and destroy their momentum. The Russian armoured forces advanced so quickly to the south, that their rifle divisions were left behind, first due to a lack of enough transport, and secondly to deal with the task of reducing pockets of resistance in rear areas. This left them vulnerable to isolation and destruction by the superior German mobile forces. Despite deep penetrations, forces of the <a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Voronezh Front">Voronezh Front</a> had been frustrated along the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Vorskla_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Vorskla River">Vorskla</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Merla_River&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merla River (page does not exist)">Merla</a> rivers by German armour operating in a "fire brigade" role which characterised later years. <a href="/wiki/SS" class="mw-redirect" title="SS">SS</a> armoured units had isolated Soviet units which had penetrated too quickly, and this had halted the momentum of the assault. </p><p>To relieve these units and prevent further German advances the <a href="/wiki/6th_Guards_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Guards Army (Soviet Union)">6th Guards</a>, <a href="/wiki/47th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="47th Army (Soviet Union)">47th</a> and <a href="/wiki/40th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="40th Army (Soviet Union)">40th</a> armies launched an assault on the left flank of <a href="/wiki/4th_Panzer_Army" title="4th Panzer Army">4th Panzerarmee</a>'s <a href="/wiki/XLVIII_Panzer_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="XLVIII Panzer Corps (Germany)">XLVII Panzercorps</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note5e"><a href="#ref_Note5e"><b><sup>e</sup></b></a></span> . <a href="/wiki/Hoth" title="Hoth">General Hoth</a> was now faced with a difficult decision whether to cancel his planned assault to defeat the overextended Soviet armoured formations or to move his armour to relieve his left flank, he made the decision to act aggressively gambling that his assault would force the Soviets to move their forces to counter his threat. On 18 August <a href="/wiki/XXIV_Panzer_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="XXIV Panzer Corps (Germany)">XXIV Panzercorps</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note6f"><a href="#ref_Note6f"><b><sup>f</sup></b></a></span> began its assault toward <a href="/wiki/Parchomovka" class="mw-redirect" title="Parchomovka">Parchomovka</a> from <a href="/wiki/Okhtyrka" title="Okhtyrka">Okhtyrka</a> for the moment and achieved quick success by early afternoon of the first day they had penetrated 20 kilometres cutting the communication lines of <a href="/wiki/27th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="27th Army (Soviet Union)">27th Army</a> and threatening to encircle the divisions southwest of <a href="/wiki/Okhtyrka" title="Okhtyrka">Okhtyrka</a>. On 20 August 1943 at 1830 hours elements of <a href="/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fdeutschland_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Großdeutschland Division">Großdeutschland</a> linked up with <a href="/wiki/3rd_SS_Panzer_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd SS Panzer Division">'Totenkopf'</a> at <a href="/wiki/Parchomovka" class="mw-redirect" title="Parchomovka">Parchomovka</a>. The link-up resulted in the tenuous encirclement of several large soviet formations<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note7g"><a href="#ref_Note7g"><b><sup>g</sup></b></a></span> which were able to escape with heavy vehicle losses and casualties. Increased soviet assaults on the <a href="/wiki/4th_Panzer_Army" title="4th Panzer Army">4th Panzerarmee</a>'s left flank over the <a href="/wiki/Psel_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Psel River">Psel River</a> by <a href="/wiki/40th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="40th Army (Soviet Union)">40th</a> and <a href="/wiki/47th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="47th Army (Soviet Union)">47th</a> armies later forced <a href="/wiki/Hoth" title="Hoth">Hoth</a> to withdraw his <a href="/wiki/10th_Panzergrenadier_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="10th Panzergrenadier Division (Wehrmacht)">10th Panzergrenadier</a> from the counter-attack and finally forced <a href="/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fdeutschland_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Großdeutschland Division">Großdeutschland</a> back to the defensive at <a href="/wiki/Parchomovka" class="mw-redirect" title="Parchomovka">Parchomovka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 26 August the Soviet <a href="/wiki/Central_Front_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Front (Soviet Union)">Central Front</a> resumed its offensive against <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre" title="Army Group Centre">Army Group Centre</a> striking the <a href="/wiki/9th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="9th Army (Wehrmacht)">9th</a> at <a href="/wiki/Karachev" title="Karachev">Karachev</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="2nd Army (Wehrmacht)">2nd</a> German Armies at <a href="/wiki/Sevsk" title="Sevsk">Sevsk</a> and east of <a href="/wiki/Klintsy" title="Klintsy">Klintsy</a> securing a deep penetration. This eventually forced <a href="/wiki/Kluge" title="Kluge">Kluge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein" title="Erich von Manstein">Manstein</a> to ask permission to withdraw to more secure defensive positions. Retreat to the <a href="/wiki/Dnepr_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Dnepr River">Dnepr River</a> was now inevitable the only question, would this happen at a time of their choosing or be a headlong flight.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note8h"><a href="#ref_Note8h"><b><sup>h</sup></b></a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mirgorod_direction_offensive&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The constant fighting never allowed <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a> to build up a reserve large enough to regain the upper hand in the east. Employing the peculiar rippling effect that marked its offensives, the Red Army, thwarted in one place, had shifted to others. For the first time in the war it had the full strategic initiative, and it grasped it jealously without regard for economy of effort, tactical sophistication, or the danger of overreaching itself.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The failure of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">"Zitadel"</a> doomed the Germans to the loss of operational initiative on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a> without any hope of regaining it, although <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a> seems to have been unaware or unwilling to recognizing this reality. The terrible losses in manpower that the Germans suffered in July and August were ultimately fatal and left the armies of <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_South" title="Army Group South">Army Group South</a> and <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre" title="Army Group Centre">Centre</a> too weak to do anything but delay the inevitable. <a href="/wiki/Operation_Polkovodets_Rumyantsev" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev">Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev</a> marked the first time in the war that the Germans were not able to defeat a major Soviet offensive during the summer months and regain their lost ground and the strategic initiative.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mirgorod_direction_offensive&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note1a"><a href="#ref_Note1a"><b><sup>a</sup></b></a></span> Consisting of the 1st Guards Tank Army, 5th Guards Tank Army, 6th Guards Army, 5th Guards Army, 40th Army, 27th Army.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note2b"><a href="#ref_Note2b"><b><sup>b</sup></b></a></span> Both belonging to LII Army Corps.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note3c"><a href="#ref_Note3c"><b><sup>c</sup></b></a></span> The 19th Panzer Division had only 28 tanks, the 6th Panzer Division which was in reserve and about 7-8 kilometres behind the front had 50 tanks. Both were reinforced by the Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 which had 10 operational <a href="/wiki/Tiger_I" title="Tiger I">"Tigers"</a>. Thus the entire German tank strength was 90 operational tanks in this sector.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note4d"><a href="#ref_Note4d"><b><sup>d</sup></b></a></span> The III Panzercorps comprising the 3rd Panzer Division, the 2nd SS Panzergrenadier Division "Das Reich", the 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division "Totenkopf" and the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Wiking". The SS divisions were severally weakened after the failure of the 'Kursk Offensive' and more recently "Das Reich" and "Totenkopf" had suffered heavy losses at failed Soviet breakthrough on the Mius river in 6th Armies sector. "Wiking" had also suffered heavy losses at Izium in 8th Armies area.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note5e"><a href="#ref_Note5e"><b><sup>e</sup></b></a></span> In the sector of the 57th and 68th Infantry Divisions which were reduced to the strength of "<a href="/wiki/Kampfgruppe" title="Kampfgruppe">kampfgruppe</a>"'s.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note6f"><a href="#ref_Note6f"><b><sup>f</sup></b></a></span> The XXIV Panzercorps comprising the 7th Panzer (40 tanks), 10th Panzergrenadier (40 tanks)& Großdeutschland divisions (70 tanks and assault guns) plus a heavy tank and several assault gun battalions.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note7g"><a href="#ref_Note7g"><b><sup>g</sup></b></a></span> The 166th and 71st Rifle divisions and the 4th Guard Tank Corps.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Note8h"><a href="#ref_Note8h"><b><sup>h</sup></b></a></span> The new 6th Army was also reeling from renewed blows on the Mius River.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations_and_notes">Citations and notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mirgorod_direction_offensive&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Citations and notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-III_Panzerkorps_Page_260-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-III_Panzerkorps_Page_260_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-III_Panzerkorps_Page_260_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Decision in the Ukraine Summer 1943 II SS & III Panzerkorps, George M Nipe Jr, <a href="/wiki/J.J._Fedorowicz_Publishing" title="J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing">JJ Fedorowicz Publishing</a> Inc. 1996 Page 260</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Panzer Operations The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus 1941–1945 bt Steven H Newton 2003 Page 212</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Decision in the Ukraine Summer 1943 II SS & III Panzerkorps, George M Nipe Jr, JJ Fedorowicz Publishing Inc. 1996 pp 260–261</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Decision in the Ukraine Summer 1943 II SS & III Panzerkorps, George M Nipe Jr, JJ Fedorowicz Publishing Inc. 1996 pp 316–324</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stalingrad to Berlin - The German Defeat in the East by Earl F Ziemke by Dorset Press 1968 pp 150–158</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stalingrad to Berlin - The German Defeat in the East by Earl F Ziemke by Dorset Press 1968 page 158</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Decision in the Ukraine Summer 1943 II SS & III Panzerkorps, George M Nipe Jr, JJ Fedorowicz Publishing Inc. 1996 Page 330</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mirgorod_direction_offensive&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i> Decision in the Ukraine Summer 1943 II SS & III Panzerkorps</i>, George M Nipe Jr, JJ Fedorowicz Publishing Inc. 1996 <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-921991-35-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-921991-35-5">0-921991-35-5</a></li> <li><i> Panzer Operations The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus 1941–1945</i> by Steven H Newton Da Capo Press edition 2003 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-306-81247-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-306-81247-9">0-306-81247-9</a></li> <li><i> Stalingrad to Berlin - 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