Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te timatanga o Operation Barbarossa (Hune 1941), i raro ano i te whakahau a te 6th Army, te XXXXIV Army Corps, i hangaia e te 9th, 262nd, 297th me te 57th Infantry Divisions, i whakahaerehia i te Southern Bug, ka tango i a Sokal me Krystynopol. I roto i te
I te Pakanga o Brody (1941), i whakaekehia te XXXXIV Corps ki nga whakaeke kaha a te Soviet 15th Mechanized Corps. Whai muri i te whakaeke, ka haere tonu te haere ki Koziatyn.