Melitopol offensive
| Melitopol offensive | |||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front | |||||||
Soldiers of the 4th Ukrainian Front cross the Sivash Bay into the Crimea | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Soviet Union |
Germany Slovakia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Fyodor Tolbukhin | Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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43,000 killed, seriously wounded, missing or captured 155,000 wounded |
4,077 killed 16,681 wounded 3,591 missing Unknown captured Unknown killed Unknown wounded 2,600 captured | ||||||
The Melitopol offensive was a successful Soviet offensive operation from September 26 to November 5, 1943, during the Second World War, as part of the second stage of the Battle of the Dnieper. It resulted in the liberation of Melitopol and the entire northern coast of the Sea of Azov.