An offensive by the Red Army’s 3rd Ukrainian Front and elements of the 4th Ukrainian Front against the German army in the area of Kikopol and Krivoi Rog in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine between 30 January and 29 February 1944. It took place on the Eastern Front of WW2 and was part of the wider Dnieper- Carpathian Offensive, a Soviet attack against Army Group South to retake the rest of Ukraine that fell to Germany in 1941.