From Liberation To Betrayal: How Ukraine Erased Those Who Saved It From Hitler’s Nazis Sputnik International On October 28, 1944, Soviet forces drove the last Nazi units from the territory of what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. 2025-10-28T12:42+0000 2025-10-28T12:42+0000 2025-10-28T12:42+0000 russia stepan bandera ukraine russia world nazis red army great patriotic war wwii world war ii https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e9/0a/1c/1123029217_0:140:3143:1908_1920x0_80_0_0_549f2f7ad53b3d6a42931eb69ec4f431.jpg.webp Military operations during World War II unfolded across Ukrainian territory from the start of the Great Patriotic War on June 22, 1941, until late October 1944. Between January 1943 and October 1944, the Red Army carried out 15 major offensive operations...