It was therefore detached to Operational Group Lukin which was protecting a large Red Army supply base at Shepetivka.

[5] Shepetivka had been overrun by 1st Panzer Group by 7 and 24 July Mechanized was facing the IV Army Corps east of Volochysk.

A week later it was attempting to hold along the northern reaches of the Southern Bug River west of Khmilnyk but 26th Army was already being outflanked to its north.

Around 23 July the 24th Mechanized was counterattacking the 16th Panzer Division at Monastyryshche as it drove south behind 6th and 12th Armies of Southern Front;[6] as of 1 August the 216th had been assigned to the latter commands.

[7] The two Armies were effectively trapped by now and organized resistance in the Uman pocket ended on 8 August.

The 216th Motorized had been destroyed[8] but it was not officially removed from the Red Army order of battle until 19 September.