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Lviv-Sandomierz Offensive

Lviv-Sandomierz Strategic Offensive Operation
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
RKKA Lviv.jpg
Soviet Soldiers in Lviv
Date 13 July 1944 – 29 August 1944
Location Western Ukraine/Eastern Poland
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
 Germany
Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46) Hungary

 Soviet Union


Armia Krajowa (23-27 July)
Commanders and leaders

Nazi Germany Josef Harpe (Army Group North Ukraine)

Flag of Hungary (1915-1918, 1919-1946).svg Raul Federikin
Soviet Union Ivan Konev
(1st Ukrainian Front)
Strength
900,000 men
900 AFVs
6,300 guns
1,002,200 men
1,979 AFVs
11,265 guns
Casualties and losses
55,000 killed, missing or captured
136,860 overall
65,001 killed, missing or captured
224,295 wounded
289,296 overall
1,269 tanks and SP guns
289 aircraft

 Soviet Union

Nazi Germany Josef Harpe (Army Group North Ukraine)

The Lviv–Sandomierz Offensive or Lviv-Sandomierz Strategic Offensive Operation (Russian: Львовско-Сандомирская стратегическая наступательная операция) was a major Red Army operation to force the German troops from Ukraine and Eastern Poland. Launched in mid-July 1944, the Red Army achieved its set objectives by the end of August.

The offensive was composed of three smaller operations:

The LvivSandomierz Offensive is generally overshadowed by the overwhelming successes of the concurrently conducted Operation Bagration that led to the destruction of Army Group Centre. However, most of the Red Army and Red Air Force resources were allocated, not to Bagration's Belorussian operations, but the Lviv-Sandomierz operations. The campaign was conducted as Maskirovka. By concentrating in southern Poland and Ukraine, the Soviets drew German mobile reserves southward, leaving Army Group Centre vulnerable to a concentrated assault. When the Soviets launched their Bagration offensive against the Army Group, it would create a crisis in the central German front, which would then force the powerful German Panzer forces back to the central front, leaving the Soviets free to pursue their objectives in seizing the Vistula bridges and gaining a foothold in Romania.


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