 On 8 March the division captured Bashtanka and then participated in the Odessa Offensive.On 10 April, Kabitsin's regiment fought in the capture of the city and then moved into the Dniester estuary, after which the 8th Guards Army was sent into reserve and transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front.The army was redeployed to the Kovel area for the next two months.