What happened in Ukraine during the Second World War?

The Second World War in Ukraine

Друга світова війна в Україні

22 June 1941–1944. On 22 June 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and by the end of the year German forces held most of Ukraine; Kyiv fell in September 1941.

Where: Ukraine

What happened

On 22 June 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and by the end of the year German forces held most of Ukraine; Kyiv fell in September 1941. The Red Army retook Kyiv on 6 November 1943, and by the end of October 1944 the fighting had moved beyond Ukraine's present borders. Millions of people in Ukraine, soldiers and civilians, died in the war and the occupation, among them Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

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Друга світова війна забрала мільйони життів в Україні.

The Second World War took millions of lives in Ukraine.