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2 Orders of battle
Most of the Soviet forces were severely depleted having
withdrawn under heavy assaults from the Luftwae from
the Polish border, and the mechanised units were virtually reduced to a single Corps after the Brody counteroensive, its mechanised infantry now ghting as ordinary rie troops.
Prelude
7 SEE ALSO
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Wehrmacht
On 10 July 1941, Budyonny was given the general command of the troops operating in the Southwestern direction, to coordinate the actions of Southwestern and
Southern Fronts. Budyonny had 1.5 million troops under his command in two strategic sectors of the front to
defend: at Kiev (37th and 26th armies), and VinnytsiaUman. No sooner had he taken up his command than
he was advised of the continued Army Group South
three-pronged oensives deep into the breach created between the Kiev sectors 26th Army and the 6th Army
to its south as General Ewald von Kleists Panzergruppe
1 drove a wedge between the two Soviet sectors of the
front south of Kiev and north of Vinnytsia, capturing
Berdychiv on 15 July and Koziatyn on 16 July. General Karl-Heinrich von Stlpnagels 17th Field Army advanced to the South of Uman and General Eugen Ritter von Schoberts 11th Field Army advanced northward
from the Romanian border.[2]
Stavka and the Southern Front's command sta mistakenly assumed that the Germans were striving to reach the
crossing of the Dnieper between Kiev and Cherkasy for
a further oensive toward Donbass, and underestimated
the danger of encirclement for the 6th and 12th armies.
On 28 July, an order was given to the Southwestern and
Southern Fronts to stop the Germans from crossing the
Dnieper and to retreat only in the Eastern direction. As a
result, an opportunity to avoid the danger of encirclement
by retreating in the Southeastern direction was lost.
The eect of the closing Axis forces was to slowly force
the concentration of the two Soviet Armies in an ever reduced area, with the combined HQs of the armies located
in the town of Podvisokoye ().
On 2 August, the encirclement was closed by the meeting of Panzer Group 1 and advance guard elements of
the German 17th Field Army. This encirclement was reinforced the next day by a second joining formed when
the German 16th Panzer Division met with the Hungarian
Mechanized Corps (Gyorshadtest). By 8 August, the Soviet resistance had generally stopped. Remnants of 20
divisions from the 6th Army and the 12th Army were
trapped.[3] German sources after the war reported about
6 References
Lderrey, Ernest, (Col.), Germanys Defeat in the
East: The Soviet Armies at War, 19411945, The
War Oce, London, 1955
Steinberg, Julien, Verdict of Three Decades: From
the Literature of Individual Revolt Against Soviet
Communism: 1917-1950, Ayer Publishing, 1971
7 See also
Battle of Kiev
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