The line was particularly weak in the area just north of the Black Sea, which allowed the Southern Front to breach it with relative ease, thereby cutting off the German 17th Army on the Crimean Peninsula from its land retreat route.
The line was particularly weak in the area just north of the Black Sea where it departed from the Dnieper to protect the Crimea. The Southern Front to breach the barely stated fortified line with relative ease, thereby cutting off the German 17th Army on the Crimean Peninsula from its land retreat route.