In the Battle of Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy, the German army was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, and in January 1944, a German messenger fled to the command post, weaving his way through gaps in the defensive line and past the bodies of dead German soldiers.

 　A German messenger escaped to the command post by threading the gaps in the defensive line and the bodies of dead German soldiers. After mid-January 1944, the German front in Ukraine also collapsed. A sign of the impending disaster in the Ukrainian region was the encirclement of ten German divisions near Korsun-Shevchenkivsky (Cherkasy) by the Soviet Red Army. From January 24 to February 16, 1944, in the Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy, the Soviet armies of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts of the Red Army launched an offensive to encircle and destroy the German Army's 6th Army Group's 58,000 German combatants in the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, south of Kiev in Ukraine.

　　On the Eastern Front of World War II, in January 1944, the German Army's Southern Army Group retreated to defensive positions along the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Some of the German troops formed trenches that stretched for about 100 km from the main positions. The Soviet Red Army trapped the German troops in a pocket near the Dnieper River. The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, lost about a third of its men, who either died in battle or were taken prisoner. After that, the weather turned bad and the ground became a thick quagmire, and the German army vehicles got stuck.

　　The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army in the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket, had about 45,000 of its original 58,000 soldiers escape, and about 36,262 of these managed to escape. In addition, about 4,161 wounded soldiers were evacuated by aircraft, and a total of about 40,423 people managed to escape. The German army suffered losses of around 19,000, and the Soviet Red Army suffered losses that exceeded those of the German army, with a total of 80,188 casualties in the three weeks of fighting.