Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan farawar Operation Barbarossa (Yuni 1941), kuma a karkashin umarnin Sojoji na 6, Rundunar Sojoji ta XXXXIV, wacce ta kunshi rukunin 9th, 262nd, 297th da 57th Infantry, sun yi aiki a Kudancin Bug, kuma sun ɗauki Sokal da Krystynopol. A lokacin yakin Brody (1941)
, Sojojin XXXXIV sun fuskanci hare-hare masu karfi daga Sojojin Soviet na 15th Mechanized. Bayan tsayayya da harin, ci gaba zuwa Koziatyn ya ci gaba.