Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Semyon Timoshenko, onye akpọrọla People's Commissar for Defence of the Soviet Union mgbe ọdachi nke Agha Oge oyi ma nwee mkpa ngwa ngwa maka ndị ọrụ nwere ahụmahụ iji mejupụta ọkwa ndị isi maka ndị agha Soviet na-agbasa ngwa ngwa, weghachiri Rokossovsky na iwu nke 5th Cavalry Corps na ọkwa nke Colonel. Mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, 5th Cavalry Corps sonyere na mwakpo nke
Bessarabia na n'oge na-adịghị anya e buliri ya n'ọkwa nke nnukwu ọchịagha ma nye ya iwu nke 9th Mechanized Corps, dị ka akụkụ nke ndị agha 5 nke MI Potapov n'okpuru Mikhail Kirponos onye isi nke mpaghara ndị agha Kiev, nke a ga-emecha gbanwee aha ya Southwestern Front na mmalite nke agha na Germany.