A bangaren Soviet, Joseph Stalin ya ƙuduri aniyar neman 'yantar da yankunan da aka mamaye daga ikon Jamus, aikin da ya sami babban nasarar farko a ƙarshen 1942 tare da Operation Uranus, wanda ya kai ga' yancin Stalingrad. Yaƙin Dnieper shine don samun 'yantar da Ukraine da tura ɓangaren kudancin gaba zuwa yamma. Don raunana tsaron Jamus har ma da kara, duk da haka, an gudanar da aikin Smolensk a lokaci guda, a cikin wani motsi wanda zai janye ajiyar Jamus zuwa arewa, don haka ya raunana tsaron Jamus a kudancin gaba. Dukkanin ayyukan biyu sun kasance wani ɓangare na wannan shirin na yaƙi, da nufin dawo da yawancin yankin Soviet daga ikon Jamus. Tambaya: Menene manufar ayyukan?
dawo da yankunan Soviet da yawa daga ikon Jamus kamar yadda zai yiwu