Battle of Sokolovo
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The Battle of Sokolovo took place on 8 and 9 March 1943, near the village of Sokolovo (Ukrainian: Соколове, Sokolove) near Kharkiv in Ukraine when the ongoing attack of the Wehrmacht was delayed by joint Soviet and Czechoslovak forces. It was the first time that a foreign military unit, the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion, fought together with the Red Army. Under the command of Ludvík Svoboda, later President of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak soldiers delayed the advance of Germans to the Mzha River. On 13 March the position was abandoned as untenable due to the complete German encirclement of Kharkov.
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Battle of Sokolovo | |||||||
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Part of the Third Battle of Kharkov | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Czechoslovakia Soviet Union | Germany | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ludvík Svoboda | Walther von Hünersdorff | ||||||
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350 soldiers 2 anti-tank cannons 16 anti-tank rifles |
2,400 infantry 20–40 tanks 20 Armored vehicles | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
86 dead 20 POW or missing 114 injured 2 anti-tank cannons 7 anti-tank rifles |
300–400 infantry 19 tanks 6 armored vehicles |
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