It seems somebody inside Western war rooms on constant telepresence in the Ukraine had stumbled upon a chronicle of Operation Fredericus (2nd battle of Kharkov), and highly likely an account of this spectacular Axis victory was written in Russian first, subsequently translated to English, French, or German.

In essence, they mirrored the aforementioned counter-offensive by Wehrmacht, thus bringing some spicy accents into the menu of denazification narrative proposed by Russia. ;) The main difference lies in that Ukrainian armed forces were unable (or simply didn’t want) to complete the encirclement, whereas in May 1942 ca. 20 Soviet divisions had been quickly trapped into crowded positions in an area of fifteen sq. km., with less than one man in ten managing to break out.

However, some parallels with Chu-Han war in Ancient China could also be drawn (see battles of Pengcheng and Anyi).