'München' (i) was the German and Romanian operation within 'Barbarossa' for the recapture of Bessarabia, ceded by Romania to the USSR in the previous year, and into southern Ukraine by means of an advance across the upper part of the Prut river and the Dniestr river into south-western Ukraine in the direction of Vinnitsa (2/24 July 1941).

Under the overall control of Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt’s Heeresgruppe 'Süd', the operation was undertaken by General de corp de armatâ Petre Dumitrescu’s Romanian 3^rd Army 1 and General de corp de armatâ Nicolae Ciupercă's Romanian 4^th Army 2 flanking Generaloberst Eugen Ritter von Schobert’s German 11^th Army 3, with 325,685 Romanian troops and 672 aircraft as well as five German divisions and 420 aircraft.

The Soviet defence, under the supervision of Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Semyon M. Budyonny’s South-West Direction, comprised the 364,700 men and 1,750 aircraft of General Major Ivan V. Tyulenev’s South Front, which comprised General Leytenant Andrei K. Smirnov’s 18^th Army and General Major Matvei V. Zakharov’s 9^th Army.

In just over three weeks of fighting, the Romanians and Germans achieved their objectives despite the sturdy defence offered by the Soviets, who had superiority in armour, in the process suffering the loss of 4,271 men killed, 12,326 men wounded and 6,168 men missing while inflicting on the Soviets losses of 8,519 men killed or missing, and 9,374 men wounded.