Barely two weeks after operation Citadel, II SSPz corps was thrown into a new battle.
In three days of fighting along the river Mius front, in south Ukraine, Adolf Hitlers elite Waffen SS Pz. Divisions would suffer more casualites than during the two-weeks tank battles south of Kursk.
The two Divisions tank losses were horrendous, with the TOTENKOPF only being able to muster 23 tanks ready for action in 2 August 43 
Altough German commander triede to portray the Mius operation as a great success, because of the 18.000 prisioneeers taken and the 585 tanks knoked out, the battle was only a Pyrrhic victory. 
Stalins General had successiful drawn Minsteins precious panzer reserves into battle in a back water on the Eastern front, and had bled them withe.
