Battle
Battle of Kiev (1941)
23 Aug 1941 – 26 Sept 1941 · Kiev and the left bank of the Dnieper
Hitler diverted Guderian's panzer group south from the Moscow axis in late August 1941; it met Kleist's armour at Lokhvitsa on 16 September, closing a vast pocket east of Kiev. The city fell on 19 September and the encirclement was liquidated by 26 September. The Red Army lost some 600,000 men killed, missing or captured — the largest encirclement in military history.
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