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{{Short description|WWII battle}}
{{Other|Dnieper campaign (disambiguation)}}▼
{{more citations needed|date=May 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
▲{{Other|Dnieper campaign (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Battle of the Dnieper
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| image_size = 300
| caption = Map of the battle of the Dnieper and linked operations
| date = 26 August 1943 – 23 December 1943<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=08|day1=26|year1=1943|month2=12|day2=23|year2=1943}})<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ed9jDwAAQBAJ&dq=%C2%A0Battle+of+the+Dnieper+december+23&pg=PA41 | title=The Eastern Front: The Germans and Soviets at War in World War II | isbn=978-0-8117-6784-2 | last1=Edwards | first1=Robert | date=15 August 2018 | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref>
| place = [[Dnieper|Dnieper River]], [[Soviet Union]]
| territory = [[Red Army|Soviets]] reclaim [[left-bank Ukraine]], including the city of [[Kiev]] and [[Donets basin]]
| result = Soviet victory
| combatant1 = {{flag|Soviet Union|1936}}
| combatant2 = {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}}<br />{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Romania
| commander1 = {{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Georgy Zhukov]]<br />{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Aleksandr Vasilevsky]]<br />{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Nikolai Vatutin]]<br />{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Ivan Konev]]<br />{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Rodion Malinovsky]]<br />{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Fyodor Tolbukhin]]<br />{{nowrap|{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Konstantin Rokossovsky]]}}
| commander2 = {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Erich von Manstein]]<br />{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist|Ewald von Kleist]]<br />{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Günther von Kluge]]
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* [[4th Panzer Army]]
* [[8th Army (Wehrmacht)|8th Army]]
* [[6th Army (Wehrmacht)|6th Army]]<br/>(until 17 September 1943)
{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Army Group A]]
* [[6th Army (Wehrmacht)|6th Army]]<br/> (re-subordinated from 17 September 1943)<ref>Frieser, Karl-Heinz. The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 356.</ref>
{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Army Group Center]]
* [[2nd Army (Wehrmacht)|2nd Army]]
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| strength2 = {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}}
'''On 1 November 1943''':<ref>OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F768.
</ref><br>[[Army Group South]]:<br>- 722,376 personnel;<br>[[6th Army (Wehrmacht)|6th Army]] of [[Army Group A]]:<br>- 182,236 personnel;<br>[[2nd Army (Wehrmacht)|2nd Army]] of [[Army Group Centre|Army Group Center]]:<br>- 200,111 personnel;<br>'''Total'''- 1,104,723 personnel.<br/>{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} Army Group South armoured strength '''as of 10 November 1943''':<ref>Oberkommando des Heeres. Geheime Kommandosache. Panzerlage der Heeresgruppe Süd. Stand am 10 November 1943. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RH 10/52, fol. 80.▼
</ref><br/>- 713 operational tanks;<br/>- 271 operational assault guns;<br/>- '''984 operational AFV's in total'''.<br/>In repairs:<br/>- 894 tanks;<br/>- 302 assault guns.<br/>{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} '''[[Luftflotte 4]] strength on 10 October 1943''':<ref>Frieser, Karl-Heinz. Germany and the Second World War: Volume VIII: The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 364.</ref><br/>- 793 operational aircraft (all types)<br/>- 1,149 aircraft in total (incl. in repairs)▼
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Romania}} '''On 1 November 1943''':<ref>OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F770.▼
</ref><br>- 85,564 personnel.▼
▲{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} Army Group South armoured strength '''as of 10 November 1943''':<ref>Oberkommando des Heeres. Geheime Kommandosache. Panzerlage der Heeresgruppe Süd. Stand am 10 November 1943. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RH 10/52, fol. 80.
▲In repairs:<br>- 894 tanks;<br>- 302 assault guns.<br>{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} '''[[Luftflotte 4]] strength on 10 October 1943''':<ref>Frieser, Karl-Heinz. Germany and the Second World War: Volume VIII: The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 364.</ref><br>- 793 operational aircraft (all types)<br>- 1,149 aircraft in total (incl. in repairs)
▲'''On 1 November 1943''':<ref>OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F770.
▲85,564 personnel.
| casualties1 = Krivosheev: 1,285,977 men<ref>{{cite web |last1=Кривошеев |first1=Г.Ф. |title=Россия и СССР в войнах XX века: Потери вооруженных сил |url=http://lib.ru/MEMUARY/.../1939-1945/KRIWOSHEEW/poteri.txt |publisher=ОЛМА-ПРЕСС |date=2001}}</ref>
:348,815 killed or missing
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:1,269,841 wounded or sick
Forczyk:<ref>Forczyk, Robert. The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles. Osprey Publishing 2016, p. 91.</ref><br/>- 290,000 killed or missing<br/>- 1,000,000+ in total
| casualties2 = {{Flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]<br>Forczyk:<ref>Forczyk, Robert. The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles. Osprey Publishing 2016, p. 91.</ref><br>
| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Axis-Soviet War}}
{{Romanian military actions in World War II}}
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| image1 = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H01757, Erich von Manstein.jpg
| caption1 = Army Group South [[Erich von Manstein]]
| image2 =
| caption2 = Army Group A [[Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist|Ewald von Kleist]]
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=== Progress of the offensive ===
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Three weeks after the start of the offensive, and despite heavy losses on the Soviet side, it became clear that the Germans could not hope to contain the Soviet offensive in the flat, open terrain of the steppes, where the Red Army's numerical strength would prevail. Manstein asked for as many as 12 new divisions in the hope of containing the Soviet offensive – but German reserves were perilously thin.
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=== Assaulting the Dnieper ===
[[File:Dayosh Kiev.jpg|thumb|Soviet soldiers preparing rafts to cross the Dnieper (the sign reads "Onwards to Kiev!")]]
[[File:Перепровляют автомашины на правый берег Днепра.jpg|thumb|Soviet trucks crossing the Dnieper on rafts]]
The first bridgehead on the Dnieper's western shore was established on 22 September 1943 at the confluence of the Dnieper and [[Pripyat River|Pripyat]] rivers, in the northern part of the front. On 24 September, another bridgehead was created near [[Kamianske|Dniprodzerzhynsk]], another on 25 September near [[Dnipropetrovsk]] and yet another on 28 September near Kremenchuk. By the end of the month, 23 bridgeheads were created on the western side, some of them 10 kilometers wide and 1–2 kilometres deep.
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:[[Kremenchug-Pyatikhatki Offensive]] 15 October – 3 November 1943
:[[Dnepropetrovsk Offensive]] 23 October – 23 December 1943
:[[Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive|Krivoi Rog Offensive]] 14–21 November 1943
:[[Apostolovo Offensive]] 14 November – 23 December 1943
:[[Nikopol Offensive]] 14 November – 31 December 1943
:[[Aleksandriia-Znamenka Offensive]] 22 November – 9 December 1943
:[[Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive|Krivoi Rog Offensive]] 10–19 December 1943
* Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation (October) (1–24 October 1943)
:Chernobyl-Radomysl Offensive Operation (1–4 October 1943)
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