Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ozugbo a malitere Operation Barbarossa, 9th Panzer Division, akụkụ nke XIV Panzer Corps (Germany) nke Army Group South, kpaliri site na Ukraine na 28 June, na-aga Kiev mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị
Agha nke Brody (1941). Ngalaba ahụ mebiri ahịrị Stalin na July 7, sonyere na gburugburu Uman, ma weghara Krivoy Rog na Nikopol na August 17. Ngalaba Panzer nke 9 weghaara Dnieper River Dam na Zaporizhia na 25 August. Site n'ebe ahụ, e mere ya isi nke Panzer Group Kleist, na-akwọ ụgbọala na Kiev site na ndịda ebe Panzer Group Guderian na-akwọ ụgbọala n'azụ obodo ahụ site n'ebe ugwu. Otu abụọ ahụ jikọtara ọnụ na 15 Septemba, na-agba gburugburu ndị agha ise nke ndị agha Soviet. Ngalaba ahụ bụ akụkụ nke ike nke jidere ndị mkpọrọ Soviet 667,000 na tankị 900 n'obodo ahụ.