Stavka for more reserves, and was allocated the 1st Tank Army and the 18th Army. These new units, along with additional Corps from other sectors, were hastily rushed westward. Thus, the Red Army stopped the German advance, went back on the offensive, and retook Brusilov. Both sides were exhausted by late December and the battle for Kiev was over. Aftermath Although the Soviets had failed to break the rail link with Army Group Center or envelop Army Group South, they had broken the Dnieper line, taken Kiev, the third biggest city in the Soviet Union, and inflicted significant casualties on the 4th Panzer Army. The Germans, for their part, had bloodied several sizable Soviet formations and kept the vital rail link open, but failed in its attempt to encircle and destroy the Soviet spearheads. A few days after XLVIII Panzer Corps was pulled out to rest and refit, the Soviets launched Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive on Christmas Eve. The renamed Voronezh Front Offensive pushed the Germans back to the 1939 Polish border by 3 January 1944. See also National Museum "Battle for Kyiv 1943" References Sources External links Museum "Battle for Kyiv 1943" website Conflicts in 1943 1943 in Ukraine 1943 in the Soviet Union Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War Battles of World War II involving Germany Battles involving the Soviet Union Battles and operations of World War II involving Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia–Soviet Union relations Military history of Kyiv 1940s in Kyiv November 1943 events December 1943 events