Army Group South Ukraine

Active5 April – 23 September 1944

Country Nazi Germany
 Romania (until 24 August 1944)

Allegiance Nazi Germany

Branch German Army
 Royal Romanian Army

Army Group South Ukraine
German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud
Active	5 April – 23 September 1944
Country	Nazi Germany  Romania (until 24 August 1944)
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Branch	German Army  Royal Romanian Army
Size	905,000 (500,000 Germans, 405,000 Romanians)[1] 120 tanks + 280 assault guns[2][3] 7,600 artillery pieces[4] 810 aircraft[5]
Engagements	Eastern Front Odessa Offensive First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive Second Jassy-Kishinev Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Ferdinand Schörner Johannes Frießner

Army Group South Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine, Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud) was a joint German-Romanian group on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A.^[6] This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) at midnight on 23 September 1944.^[7][a]

Geographically, Army Group South Ukraine – headquartered at Slănic-Moldova – held 392 miles (680 km) of front, of which 160 were held by Romanians.^[8] Its operational area covered all of Eastern Romania, from a line 40 km (25 miles) east of Bucharest.^[9]