"April 17th, 1943
- English Mk.II Matilda and Mk.III Valentine tanks have been used in the Great Patriotic War as a part of:
- Independent tank brigades and battalions where they were used alongside domestic tanks, chiefly the T-60 and T-70.
- Tank regiments of the 5th Mechanized Corps, equipped exclusively with English Mk.II and Mk.III tanks.
- Tank brigades of the 9th, 10th, and 11th Tank Corps jointly with T-60 and T-70 tanks.Mk.II and Mk.III tanks were used in 1942-1943 in the winter and summer, mostly on the Western (up to 200 tanks), Bryansk (up to 250 tanks) and North Caucasus (up to 150 tanks) Fronts as well as the 5th Mechanized Corps of the South-Western Front (up to 180 tanks.The Churchill tank was only used on the Don and Volkhov Fronts in the winter of 1942-43 in independent breakthrough regiments equipped only with this kind of tank.