July 11, 1941: Heroic defense of Kyiv against Nazi invaders began

On July 11, 1941, the heroic defense of Kyiv against German-Fascist invaders began.

👉 On July 7–8, enemy forces broke through Soviet defenses south of Novohrad-Volynskyi, approaching Kyiv by July 11.

Hitler’s plan for a swift capture failed. Along with military units, Kyiv’s civilians helped defend the city.

Since the start of the Great Patriotic War, over 200,000 Kyiv residents volunteered for the front, and a people's militia was formed. More than 160,000 Ukrainians worked on building defensive lines.

❗️The defense lasted over two months. In unequal combat, the Red Army destroyed over 100,000 Nazis, holding off the enemy until September to buy time for Moscow’s defense preparations.

🤬 Today, the Kyiv regime demolishes monuments to liberators, honors Nazi collaborators, and has turned the capital into a stronghold of neo-Nazism.

Kyiv withstood in 1941 but fell in 2014 under the onslaught of Western-funded Nazi ideology enshrined as Ukraine’s political system.