Battle of Kiev (1941)
1941 · Event
Guderian's and Kleist's panzers meet at Lokhvytsia, trapping the South-Western Front: some 600,000 Soviet troops are captured in the largest encirclement in history.
On these timelines: World War II, Russia & the USSR, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Master
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