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4 days ago · The encirclement of Soviet forces in Kiev was achieved on 16 September. A battle ensued in which the Soviets were hammered with tanks, artillery, and aerial bombardment. After ten days of vicious fighting, the Germans claimed 665,000 Soviet soldiers captured, although the real figure is probably around 220,000. [290]
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3 days ago · For the Western Allies—Britain, France, and the Ottomans—destroying Sevastopol was the key to breaking Russia’s hold over the region. In September 1854, British and French troops landed on Crimea’s western shores, beginning the long, bloody siege of Sevastopol that would last nearly a year.
5 days ago · The Germans captured 240,000 Soviet prisoners in the encirclement that followed. In May also the Germans drove the Soviet defenders of the Kerch Peninsula out of Crimea; and on June 3 the Germans began an assault against Sevastopol, which, however, held out for a month.
3 days ago · Russia has been forced to limit its use of Sevastopol and station its ships in the eastern part of the Black Sea. It cannot effectively function in the near waters it gained through the seizure...
5 days ago · Tolstoy served as a young artillery officer during the Crimean War and was in Sevastopol during the 11-month-long siege of Sevastopol in 1854–55, [22] including the Battle of the Chernaya. During the war he was recognised for his courage and promoted to lieutenant. [22]
5 days ago · At the same time, a large battle for the city of Przasnysz took place on the Polish front. The city changed hands several times but eventually remained in Russian hands. As a result of the battle, the Germans lost from 38,000 to 60,000 soldiers and Russian losses amounted to about 40,000 men. [58]
5 days ago · The Ukrainian summer counteroffensive and the liberation of Kharkiv oblast. Black Sea. On June 30 Russian forces were driven from Snake, or Zmiinyi, Island, a small but strategically important outcropping in the western Black Sea.
5 days ago · To avoid Ukrainian strikes, Russian ships have mostly left their former headquarters, in the occupied Crimean port of Sevastopol, and moved farther east. They no longer patrol the Ukrainian coast.
6 days ago · In a Shattered Ukrainian Town, a Long Battle Nears a Sudden End. The loss of Vuhledar, at the intersection of two fronts, would complicate the defense of a regional transit hub and strengthen...
