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1943
July
11
Key event
Bloody Sunday in Volhynia
On 11 July 1943 UPA units and local peasants attacked nearly 100 Polish villages and settlements in Volhynia – the bloodiest day of the Volhynia massacres.
October
25
The liberation of Dnipropetrovsk
On 25 October 1943 troops of Malinovsky's 3rd Ukrainian Front took ruined Dnipropetrovsk and Dniprodzerzhynsk on the lower Dnieper.
November
06
Key event
The liberation of Kiev
On the morning of 6 November 1943 General Vatutin's 1st Ukrainian Front took the ruined city of Kiev – on the eve of the anniversary of the October Revolution.
December
16
The Eastern Front in mid-December 1943
In mid-December 1943 the Red Army was eliminating the Gorodok salient, holding the Kiev bridgehead against Manstein and preparing a winter offensive in Ukraine.
1944
January
04
Key event
The Red Army crosses the pre-war Polish border
On the night of 3–4 January 1944 troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front crossed the pre-war Polish border near Rokitno in Volhynia.
28
The Korsun pocket
On 28 January 1944 tanks of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts met at Zvenyhorodka, trapping two German corps – some 56,000–60,000 men – near Korsun.
February
16
The breakout from the Korsun pocket
On the night of 16/17 February 1944 the German corps trapped at Korsun broke out of the pocket. About two-thirds of the men escaped; their equipment was lost.
March
08
The offensive in Right-Bank Ukraine
In early March 1944 three Ukrainian Fronts of the Red Army struck west of the Dnieper. In the spring mud the Germans fell back towards the Bug and the Dniester.
20
The Red Army at the Romanian border
On 17–20 March 1944 Konev's troops crossed the Dniester into Bessarabia and Zhukov's took Vinnytsia. The German front in Ukraine was falling apart.
April
10
The Red Army in Odessa
On 10 April 1944 Malinovsky's 3rd Ukrainian Front took Odessa, ending two and a half years of occupation of the capital of Romanian-run Transnistria.
June
02
Operation Frantic
On 2 June 1944 American bombers from Italy struck Debrecen and landed in Ukraine, beginning shuttle-bombing missions through bases in the USSR.
July
13
The Lwów–Sandomierz offensive begins
On 13 July 1944 Marshal Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front advanced on Rawa Ruska and Lwów, opening the offensive that drove the Germans out of Eastern Galicia.
23
The Lwów uprising
On 23 July 1944 the Home Army and the Red Army fought the Germans in Lwów. The city fell on 27 July; days later the NKVD arrested the Home Army commanders.
August
06
The Baligród massacre
On 6 August 1944 the UPA unit of “Burlaka” raided Baligród in the Bieszczady and murdered dozens of Polish men. The victims' memorial lists 42 names.
1945
August
01
The UPA attack on Baligród
On 1 August 1945 a UPA company attacked the Citizens' Militia post in Baligród. The defenders held out until morning; the attackers burned several houses.