Soviet Counter-offensive: Operation Little Saturn
After the defeat of the Romanian Army around Stalingrad and the successful encirclement of the German Sixth Army (defeating even the German "Operation Winter Storm" attempt to relieve the siege), Stalin started a counter-offensive nicknamed "Operation Little Saturn" in order to enlarge the area controlled by the Soviet Army in eastern Ukraine until Kharkov and Rostov.
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