GRE-Turkish relations have been quite declining recently.

The Soviets advanced only 10 kilometers in three days after landing at Feodosia on 29 December. [25] At 1350 hours on 26 December, IR 72 reported that a captured Soviet officer from Cape Khroni had revealed the extent of the Soviet plan – to land 25,000 troops at Kerch. Germans counterattacked as early as mid-January. At 1730, the advance guard consisting of the Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Kavkaz, the Fidonisy-class destroyers Shaumyan, Zhelezniakov, and Nezamozhnik and patrol boats and minesweepers steamed towards Feodosia in relatively favorable weather permitting speeds of 16 knots.

Fretter-Pico tasked a Romanian mountain infantry battalion with mopping up operations, which continued for five months until June. destroyed.”. Its successful conclusion allowed the Axis to concentrate their forces on Sevastopol, which was conquered within six weeks. Everything, including firewood had to be brought in by sea. On 1/2 March 1942, it damaged the 2,434 long tons (2,473 t) steamer Fabritsius which was damaged but written off.

On 17 February, the transport Byelostok brought in 871 men. The overall Soviet [26], The counterattack against Zyuk was launched only at 1300 hours on 27 December due to the muddy roads.

[9], The German offensive had no option but to break through the Soviet lines head-on. The Red Army lost over 170,000 men killed or taken prisoner, and three armies (44th, 47th, and 51st) with twenty-one divisions. More than 160,000 Soviet soldiers were captured or killed mistakes, a lack of coordination and proper supplies on the

The Germans claimed to have taken 170,000 prisoners, but this number included a large number of civilians. [49], The 51st Army planned to attack in the north on 27 February across a flat, 80-square kilometer plain dotted only by a handful of small villages.

He committed his units in the south against the 44th Army. [54] After a five-kilometer Soviet penetration, Gruppe Hitzfeld sealed off the attack with artillery, anti-tank and machine-gun fire. [36] Casualties were high.

The number of flown missions was reduced accordingly; from 1,500 to 2,000 sorties per day prior to the redeployment to between 300 and 800 to the end of the Kerch operation.

of a Soldier” – was taken by war photographer Anatoliy Garanin The Germans achieved complete surprise and swiftly overran the Soviet positions. Impenetrable black smoke clouds formed above the burning buildings.

Union to retake Crimea by the time the offensive started on April

Many of these soldiers were occupying the caves along with many civilians, who had fled the city of Kerch. The destroyers Zhelezniakov and Nyezamozhnik landed more reinforcements soon after.