The Yugoslav Partisans around Belgrade had gathered for a last stand with help from the Românian communist rebels. It was at this point that the Românian, Bulgarian and German forces felt they needed to end the Euro-Communist axis once and for all. Inteligency and signals analisis had shown that that the Ukraine was not compleatly done. The local rebels had deployed several heavy tanks and many 45mm anti-tank guns and many 7.62mm DT Degtyarev light machine guns around the city with much tactical concern.