But like 1944, the defense may have a powerful ally in the weather.īy early 1944, Nazi Germany was clearly losing the war. As in 1944, the defenders are outnumbered and outgunned, and the Ukrainian plains are hardly optimum defensive terrain. Instead, the “Korsun pocket” became a grim deathmatch - fought in snow and mud - that cost more than 100,000 German and Soviet casualties.įast forward to 2022, and Russian troops are advancing into Ukraine from north, east and south.
In particular is the Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy in February 1944, when the Red Army conducted a pincers offensive to encircle a Nazi army in what was supposed to be a second Stalingrad. The Battle of Korsun Meets Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine – What Can We Learn from History? As Russian tank columns swarm across Ukraine in an apparent bid to encircle the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, they evoke the specter of the bloody World War II battles that raged across Ukraine in 1943-1944.
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