The battle was an unprecedented defeat for the Red Army, and was more damaging than the Battle of Białystok–Minsk of June–July 1941. The encirclement trapped ...

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On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched his massive Wehrmacht in an effort to destroy the Red Army and the Soviet Union.

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On September 19, 1941, a new conqueror entered what was now the capital of the Soviet Ukraine as German troops marched through the city. The soldiers were ...

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The Battle of Kiev (Kyiv) in July-September 1941 was a major Axis victory in Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler's attack on the USSR during ...

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Over the course of ten days, six Soviet armies attempted to break free from the encirclement, but faced overwhelming German forces and superior air control.

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On September 29–30, 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries murdered the Jewish population of Kyiv at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar), a ravine northwest of ...

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By the end of September Kiev had fallen and over 650,000 Russian troops killed or captured. The Germans pushed along the Black Sea coast and into the Crimea, ...

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The Soviet Red Army lost over 700,000 men, some 600,000 ended in German captivity. The battle is considered the largest encirclement in the ...

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The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during ...

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