Kammala wannan jumla: A yakin duniya na biyu, birnin ya sake fuskantar mummunar lalacewa, kuma Nazi Jamus ta mallake ta daga 19 Satumba 1941 zuwa
Ranar 6 ga Nuwamba, 1943. Sojojin Axis sun kashe ko kama sojoji Soviet fiye da 600,000 a cikin babban kewayewa Yaƙin Kyiv a 1941. Yawancin waɗanda aka kama ba su dawo da rai ba. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan da Wehrmacht ya mamaye garin, ƙungiyar jami'an NKVD da suka kasance a ɓoye sun lalata yawancin gine-ginen da ke kan Khreshchatyk, babban titin garin, inda sojojin Jamus da hukumomin farar hula suka mamaye yawancin gine-ginen; gine-ginen sun ƙone tsawon kwanaki kuma mutane 25,000 sun bar marasa gida.