World War II: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" id="mwtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> begins the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uman–Botoșani_offensive" id="mwtw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Uman–Botoșani offensive">Uman–Botoșani offensive</a> in the western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" id="mwuA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Ukrainian SSR</a>.