article_snippet.sent: The Ukrainian city of ODESSA was subjected to an unrelenting aerial bombardment by the Nazis and their Axis allies in June 1941.
article_snippet.sent: Surrounded on three sides, it was anticipated that Soviet forces would succumb quickly, but a channel via the Black Sea allowed for supplies and reinforcements to make Soviet forces way into The Ukrainian city of Odessa.
article_snippet.sent: Heavy artillery: German troops during the siege of ODESSA against the Soviet army in World War Two .
article_snippet.sent: Soviet soldiers march through a muddy field near ODESSA .
article_snippet.sent: However, by September 15, Soviet troops began to fall back towards The Ukrainian city of Odessa and by early October, Moscow ordered a retreat.
article_snippet.sent: On October 15, Romanian troops – part of the Axis alliance – entered The Ukrainian city of Odessa.
article_snippet.sent: By the end of June, The Germans fought The Germans way into The Ukrainian city of Odessa and an evacuation of Russian forces in The Ukrainian city of Odessa was ordered on June 30, lasting for four days.