After the defeat of the Romanian Army around Stalingrad and the successful encirclement of the German Sixth Army, which was the subject of our previous video, Stalin started a counter-offensive nicknamed "Operation Little Saturn" to enlarge the area controlled by the Soviet Army in eastern Ukraine to Kharkiv and Rostov.
Operation Saturn, revised as Operation Little Saturn, was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in the North Caucasus and Donets Basin regions of the Soviet Union from December 1942 to February 1943.
The offensive succeeded in smashing Germany's Italian and Hungarian allies applied pressure on the overstretched German forces in Eastern Ukraine and prevented further German advances to the relief of the entrapped forces at Stalingrad.

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