Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive

The Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive or the L'vov-Sandomierz Strategic Offensive Operation (Ukrainian: Львівсько-Сандомирська операція, 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, in just under one month of fighting, the Red Army achieved their objectives. The Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive is generally overshadowed... more

The Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive or the L'vov-Sandomierz Strategic Offensive Operation (Ukrainian: Львівсько-Сандомирська операція, 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, in just under one month of fighting, the Red Army achieved their objectives. The Lvov–Sandomierz 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 Forces resources were allocated, not to Bagration's Belarusian operation, but the Lvov-Sanomierz operations. The Maskirovka campaign was conducted as a double bluff. By concentrating in southern Poland and the Ukraine, the Soviets drew German mobile reserves southward. Army Group Centre was now vulnerable to a concentrated assault. When the Soviets launched their Bagration... less