Kiev 1941: The greatest encirclement of WWII and the loss of 600,000 Soviet soldiers

World War Visuals on Instagram: "The biggest encirclement in history, by sheer numbers captured, was the Battle of Kiev (1941) during Operation Barbarossa, where German forces trapped and defeated the Soviet Southwestern Front, resulting in over 600,000 Soviet soldiers taken prisoner, though it was part of the much larger Barbarossa invasion which saw immense scale and casualties. Barbarossa itself was the largest land invasion in history, involving millions of Axis troops, and opened the Easter