In November and December , the 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts conducted Action multiple unsuccessful attacks against the bridgehead , a salient centered Placing around the supply Supply base and rail junction of Apostolovo , and German troops in the Krivoi Rog area .

The Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive Attack , also known Know in Soviet historical sources as the liberation Hostile_encounter of right-bank Ukraine , was a strategic offensive Attack executed by the Soviet 1st , 2nd , 3rd , and 4th Ukrainian Fronts , along with the 2nd Belorussian Front , against the German Army Group South , and fought Hostile_encounter from 24 December 1943 – 17 April 1944 .

Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda ( Russian : Операция Полярная звезда , `` Operatsia Polyarnaya Zvezda '' ; English translation : Operation Polar Star ) was an operation Military_operation conducted Action by the Soviet Leningrad , Volkhov and Northwestern Fronts in February and March 1943 .

One was to be carried out Action in the north by the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts near Mga and one was planned Arranging to be carried out Action further to the south , by the Northwestern Front , near Demyansk .

Military historian David Glantz claims Statement the battle resulted from a Stavka order to the forces of the 2nd & 3rd Ukrainian Fronts to commence a coordinated invasion of Romania .