In the final planning for Operation Ring, the division was paired with 38th Rifle Division as the shock group of 57th Army, supported by 254th Tank Brigade and 234th Separate Tank Regiment. Its initial objectives were the German strongholds of Kravtsov, Tsybenko, and Hill 117.4., north of Kravtsov. On January 10, 1943, the first day of the offensive, the 422nd punched through the defenses of the German 297th Infantry Division and enveloped the battalion of the 670th Regiment defending Tsybenko from the west. This allowed the 254th Tank Brigade to exploit the penetration to part of Gornaia Poliana State Farm, more than a kilometre in the rear of German IV Corps. The few reserves of that corps were used up in futile attempts to close this and other breaches and rescue the forces isolated in Tsybenko, and two days later the 422nd took control of that fortified position. The division continued its attack on January 13, taking the strongpoint at Kravtsov from another battalion of the 297th Infantry, then advancing west and northwest towards Hill 115.2 and Rakotino, both of which were weakly defended by the 767th Regiment of the 376th Infantry Division. Rakotino was enveloped from the northwest, rendering it untenable, and the division soon liberated these positions as well. On January 14, the 422nd advanced again against the 376th Infantry, capturing the town of Skliarov and rolling up the Germans' left wing in the process. Meanwhile, other Soviet forces drove deep into the 376th's rear, trapping it southwest of Basargino Station. Late that evening, a staff officer of Army Group Don commented in its war diary that "376th ID seems to have been broken up." Nearly all of its combat troops died in place or surrendered within days, while its support elements withdrew eastwards.