battle, notable, interwar and Second World War

Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket

Name: Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket
Start: 1944-04-08
Location: Ternopil, Ukraine

Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket was a battle fought on 8 April 1944 at Ternopil, in what is now Ukraine; it lasted 7 days. It was part of Proskurov–Chernovtsy Offensive.

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Fought8 April 1944lasted 7 days

WhereTernopil, Ukraine49.000N, 26.500E

OutcomeStrategic Soviet victory; 1st Panzer Army encircled, eventually breaks out, albeit debilitated; Army Group South split in two; Army Group South renamed to Army Group North Ukraine

BelligerentsNazi Germany; Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)againstSoviet Union

Part ofProskurov–Chernovtsy Offensive1944

Record

Date	8 April 1944 to 15 April 1944
Place	Ternopil, Ukraine 49.000N, 26.500E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Territorial change	Expulsion of Axis forces from most of Ukraine; Red Army enters Eastern Poland
Strength	On 1 March 1944: Army Group South GHQ units: - 73,740; 1st Panzer Army: - 211,545; 4th Panzer Army: - 115,613; Total: 400,898 personnel; Combined AFV status for the 1st and 4th Panzer Armies, 1–5 March 1944: - 164 operational tanks; - 101 operational StuG's; - 146 operational self-propelled AT guns; - 411 operational AFVs in total; 1st Panzer Army AFVs in repair, 18-21 February 1944: - 355 tanks and 57 StuG's; 1 March 1944: VII Army Corps: 29,500 personnel; April 1944: 150,000–180,000 personnel; (mobilization of the 1st Army); 30 tanks, 30 assault guns	On 1 March 1944: 1st Ukrainian Front: - 861,270 ration strength; - 646,842 combat forces; - 1,409 operational tanks and self-propelled guns; - 277 tanks and self-propelled guns in repair; - 11,221 guns and mortars; - 477 aircraft
Casualties and losses	Germany; Personnel; Combined losses of the 1st and 4th Panzer Armies, March–April 1944; March: 57,049 killed, wounded, missing and sick in total; April: 24,839 killed, wounded, missing and sick in total; Total: 81,888; 1st Panzer Army: 45,000+ total losses; 4th Panzer Army: 35,000+ total losses; Material; Material losses of the 1st Panzer Army in the pocket: - 322 tanks; - 39 assault guns; - 143 self-propelled anti-tank and artillery pieces; - 707 armored personnel carriers and reckon vehicles; - 22,389 motor vehicles; - most of the artillery pieces lost; - 6,675 horses killed or missing (for 11 March - 20 April); Hungary; 1st Army losses for 17–30 April 1944 only: 15,571 killed, wounded and missing in total; VII Army Corps in March 1944: Exact losses unknown, destroyed at the end of March 1944; Total Axis losses: ~100,000	Losses of the 1st Ukrainian Front; March: 111,354 killed, wounded and missing in total; Material; - 343 tanks (excl. 11-20 March); - 78 self-propelled guns; - 282 field guns of all calibers; - 11 anti-aircraft guns; - 182 mortars; - 1,954 machine guns; - 12,859 sub-machine guns; - 19,627 rifles; April: 93,200 killed, wounded and missing in total; Material; - 208 tanks; - 56 self-propelled guns; - 969 field guns of all calibers; - 24 anti-aircraft guns; - 646 mortars; - 4,156 machine-guns; - 23,596 sub-machine guns; - 31,683 rifles; Total: - 204,554 killed, wounded and missing in total; - 551 tanks (incomplete for 11-20 March); - 134 self-propelled guns; - 1,251 field guns of all calibers; - 35 anti-aircraft guns; - 828 mortars; - 6,110 machine guns; - 36,455 sub-machine guns; - 51,310 rifles
Commanders	Adolf Hitler Erich von Manstein Walter Model Hans-Valentin Hube Erhard Raus Géza Lakatos	Joseph Stalin Georgi Zhukov 1st Ukrainian Front

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Kamenets 1672, 36 km S
Siege of Kamenets 1655, 36 km S
Battle of Zhvanets 1653, 50 km S
Siege of Khotin 1788, 53 km S
Battle of Khotyn 1673, 56 km S

Elsewhere in 1944

Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 301 in present-day Ukraine.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q691968, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Kamenets–Podolsky pocket, revision 1376627230, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.