Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Da zarar an kaddamar da Operation Barbarossa, 9th Panzer Division, wani ɓangare na XIV Panzer Corps (Germany) na Army Group South, ya tura ta hanyar Ukraine a ranar 28 ga Yuni, yana zuwa Kiev bayan da
Yaƙin Brody (1941). Rukunin ya keta layin Stalin a ranar 7 ga Yuli, ya shiga cikin kewaye Uman, kuma ya kama Krivoy Rog da Nikopol a ranar 17 ga Agusta. Rukunin Panzer na 9 ya kama madatsar ruwan Dnieper a Zaporizhia a ranar 25 ga Agusta. Daga can, an sanya shi jagorancin Panzer Group Kleist, yana tuki zuwa Kiev daga kudu yayin da Panzer Group Guderian ya koma bayan birnin daga arewa. Kungiyoyin biyu sun haɗu a ranar 15 ga Satumba, suna kewaye da runduna biyar na Sojojin Soviet. Rukunin ya kasance wani ɓangare na ƙarfin da ya kama fursunonin Soviet 667,000 da tankuna 900 a cikin birni.