Soviet Disaster in Ukraine - Eastern Front DOCUMENTARY

🎥 Watch 220+ exclusive videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmaBzfCCwZ2KqaBJjkj0fw/join Support Kings and Generals: ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals ✔ PayPal ► https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kingsandgenerals ✔ Bitcoin (BTC)► bc1qe0a9266ksksncp44flhgrwex5sm94w3y576z7t ✔ Ethereum (ETH)► 0x6F453dBc50F21816dCe8fdaE797AA9071c8d3a8a ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/kingsandgenerals Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the Eastern Front of World War II continues with the largest invasion in history - Operation Barbarossa. Previously we have covered early September 1941, detailing Army Group North’s encirclement of Leningrad, Soviet attempts to hold the Volkhov line, Zhukov’s counteroffensive at Yelna, Hitler’s Directive 35, and Guderian’s troubled drive south toward Kyiv (https://youtu.be/j2YSQZ-1dbM). In this week-by-week chronicle of the Eastern Front, we cover September 8–16, 1941—when Leningrad is formally encircled and the trap around Kyiv snaps shut. We open with the Wehrmacht’s replacement crisis: staggering casualties, worn-out tanks, and Hitler’s hold on new production hampering the Panzer arm on the eve of Operation Typhoon. In the north, Army Group North seals the siege as Leeb accelerates assaults toward Krasnogvardeysky and Krasnoe Selo under heavy Soviet land and naval artillery, while massive Luftwaffe raids ignite the Badaev warehouses. Zhukov arrives, halts demolition plans, issues a no-step-back order, and throws militia and sailors into the line as a second defensive belt takes shape from the Gulf of Finland to the Neva. In the center, attritional attacks batter both sides as resources are siphoned south. There, Guderian struggles through mud until Model’s dash to Romny captures vital Soviet stockpiles; days later, Kleist breaks out of Kremenchuk, refitted divisions racing to meet Model and close the Kyiv encirclement. With Soviet command paralyzed by politics and misread intentions, the Southwestern and Bryansk Fronts stagger as German pincers converge. Exhaustion mounts, but catastrophe deepens. Eastern Front of WW2 Week-by-Week: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaBYW76inbX6ubSghjj0fxjMRvShxAUGT Eastern Front Podcast: https://theeasternfront.podbean.com/e/eastern-front-prelude-01-the-russian-revolution-and-russian-civil-war/ Pacific War: https://youtu.be/MEgIHN63ojU?list=PLaBYW76inbX4kE52CPUvx8gZ7CQyjweEg Modern Warfare: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaBYW76inbX4NYr_WkbaW5KfYwqTAxn08 Winter War: https://youtu.be/1Uk5bY22RSE Khalkhin Gol: https://youtu.be/GGwUlET2tbw Video: Hazimin Arif Script: Callum Nicolson VO: Devin http://bit.ly/3XzSCgV & http://bit.ly/3GUO9iT ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/kingsandgenerals ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/KingsandGenerals ✔ Podcast ► http://www.kingsandgenerals.net/podcast/ ✔ PayPal ► http://paypal.me/kingsandgenerals ✔ Twitter ► https://twitter.com/KingsGenerals ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/KingsGenerals ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/Kings_Generals Production Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound: http://www.epidemicsound.com 00:00 - Encirclements Loom in North & South 01:14 - Men & Machines: Replacement Crisis 04:00 - Leningrad Sealed: Siege Begins 06:23 - Krasnoe Selo Battles & Naval Fire 08:16 - Zhukov Arrives: No-Step-Back 09:29 - Center Attrition & Typhoon Prep 12:04 - Race to Romny; 16:44 - Kremenchuk Breakout & Kyiv Trap Closes Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yVAicwbiB_RfEPxT2EqQCYOal9npPUsdayzwvgetfeY/edit?usp=sharing #WWII #OperationBarbarossa #EasternFront #KingsAndGenerals #HistoryDocumentary #MilitaryHistory