Disposition of Forces
Six Soviet mechanized corps, with over 2,500 tanks, were massed to take part in a concentric counterattack through the flanks of Panzer Group 1 in an effort to convert it into a pincer movement from the north (Soviet 5th Army) and south (6th Army) that met west of Dubno in order to trap parts of the 6th and 17th German Armies, the northern flank of the Army Group South.
To achieve this the 8th Mechanized Corps was transferred from the command of the 26th Army, positioned to the south of the 6th Army, and placed under the command of N. I. Muzychenko's 6th Army. This in essence brought the entire mobile assets of the South Western Front to bear against the base of von Kleist's thrust toward Kiev.
The primary German infantry formation operating on this sector of the front, IV Army Corps (von Schwedler) of the 17th Army (Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel) were advancing in the south-easterly direction with the objective of cutting Lviv-Kiev railway line.
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