April 1944

Eastern Front

The 4th Panzer Army launches a limited counterattack with its LIX Corps that recovers Kovel. Along the Dniestr, as the 1st Panzer Army attacks west the I and II SS Panzer Corps begin a relief attack from Buchach, striking the extended flanks of the 1st Guards and 38th Armies. To the south, the 37th Army crosses the Tiligul River, capturing Razdelnaya.

The Stavka reorganize its forces in the central sectors. The recently formed 2nd Belorussian Front is disbanded, its forces being allocated to Rokossovsky's 1st Belorussian Front.

As the fighting in the Ukraine bogs down the Stavka plans to unleash two new offensives. The first will hit the German 17th Army in the Crimea while the second, far larger attack is designed to destroy the froces of Army Group Center in Belorussia. Throughouth April and May the Russian forces in this region are comprehensively re-formed and reinforced.