Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)

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Donbas strategic offensive
Part of The Eastern Front of World War II
Map of the Donbas offensive (in German)
Date 13 August 1943 – 22 September 1943 (1 month, 1 week and 2 days) Location Donetsk Basin, Soviet Union Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Fyodor Tolbukhin Rodion Malinovsky	Erich von Manstein Karl-Adolf Hollidt Eberhard von Mackensen
Units involved
Southern Front Southwestern Front	Army Group South 6th Army 1st Panzer Army
Strength
1,053,000 men[1] 1,257 tanks and assault guns[1] 21,000 guns and mortars[1] 1,400 combat aircraft[1]	Around 400,000 men
Casualties and losses
273,522 men[1] 66,166 killed, captured or missing 207,356 wounded or sick 886 tanks and assault guns destroyed[1] 814 guns and mortars[1] 327 aircraft[1]	28,940 men (German claim) (11 August – 20 September)[2] 4,721 killed 21,234 wounded 2,985 missing

The Donbas strategic offensive was the second of two strategic operations of the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II, with the goal of liberating the Donetsk Basin, or Donbas, from the forces of Nazi Germany.