Sunday marks the 80th anniversary of Red Army troops starting the Donbass Strategic Offensive during the Second World War.The goal was to defeat the Nazi troops' "South" battle group and liberate the territory of the Donbass region in then-Soviet Ukraine, including the cities of Donetsk, Taganrog and Mariupol. The operation ended with a Soviet victory on September 22, 1943.And now, when just like 80 years ago, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting the enemy to de-Nazify Donbass, it is important to see how the land was liberated from the enemy.Scroll through Sputnik's gallery to see images related to the 1943 Donbass Strategic Offensive.
80 years ago, Nazi forces were driven out of the Soviet Donbass region as a result of a strategic military operation launched by the Red Army.
Sunday marks the 80th anniversary of Red Army troops starting the Donbass Strategic Offensive during the Second World War.
The goal was to defeat the Nazi troops' "South" battle group and liberate the territory of the Donbass region in then-Soviet Ukraine, including the cities of Donetsk, Taganrog and Mariupol. The operation ended with a Soviet victory on September 22, 1943.
And now, when just like 80 years ago, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting the enemy to de-Nazify Donbass, it is important to see how the land was liberated from the enemy.
Scroll through Sputnik's gallery to see images related to the 1943 Donbass Strategic Offensive.
A unit of Nazi POWs is on the move on the outskirts of Zmiyev.
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