Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Battle of Prokhorovka

Battle of Prokhorovka

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 12, 2017 by - Dank (push to talk) 20:37, 13 June 2017 (UTC)



The Battle of Prokhorovka (12 July 1943), one of the largest tank battles in history, was fought between Waffen-SS units of Nazi Germany and Red Army units of the Soviet Union during the Second World War in the Eastern Front. It was the climax of the German offensive, Operation Citadel, and occurred when the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army intercepted the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht near Prokhorovka. The 5th Guards Tank Army was decimated in the attack, but succeeded in preventing the Wehrmacht from capturing Prokhorovka and breaking through the last heavily fortified Soviet defensive belt. With the Germans unable to accomplish their objective for Operation Citadel, they cancelled it and began redeploying their forces to deal with new pressing developments elsewhere. The failure of the operation marked the first time in the war that a major German offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences and penetrate into their operational or strategic depths. The Soviet Union thus permanently gained the strategic initiative, while Germany permanently lost the capacity to launch offensives of such scale on the Eastern Front.
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 * Promoted: June 2, 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: Nominating for 12 July 2017, and the battle happened on 12 July, 74 years ago. It's High-importance on WikiProject Russia. Has versions in at least 5 other language versions of Wikipedia.
 * Support as nominator. EyeTruth (talk) 03:31, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Support - appropriate date, there hasn't been a TFA on the Eastern Front of WWII for a very long time. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:46, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Support as contributor. K.e.coffman (talk) 08:15, 5 June 2017 (UTC)