Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan barkewar Operation Barbarossa a watan Yunin 1941, Polynin ya yi aiki a matsayin kwamandan rundunar sojin sama ta 13 a Yammacin Yamma. A cikin mawuyacin yanayi na farkon watanni na yaƙin, ba tare da cikakken ɗaukar iska ba, ƙungiyarsa ta yi yaƙi da sojojin Jamus masu tasowa a cikin Yaƙin Białystok <unk> Minsk da Smolensk, yayin da suke fama da asara mai yawa. Daga watan Agusta 1941, an nada shi a matsayin kwamandan raka'o'in Sojojin Sama a Bryansk Front, wanda a lokacin ya shiga cikin Roslavl<unk>Novozybkov Offensive da kuma a yakin Moscow. A watan Mayu 1942, an nada shi Mataimakin Kwamandan Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta 2 a Bryansk Front, kuma daga watan Satumbar 1942, an nada shi Mataimakin Kwamandan Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta 6 na Arewa maso Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin A watan Fabrairun 1944, an sanya rukunin zuwa 2nd Belorussian Front kuma ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Demyansk, Starorusskaya,
Nevel, Polesskaya, da kuma Operation Bagration.