Osovets offensive

Osovets offensive
Part of Operation Bagration / Eastern Front
Date6–14 August 1944
Location
Belligerents
 Germany  Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Nazi Germany Helmuth Weidling,
Nazi Germany Friedrich Herrlein
Soviet Union Gyorgy Zakharov
(2nd Belorussian Front)
Strength
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Casualties and losses
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The Osovets offensive (Russian: Осовецкая наступательная операция) was part of the third and final phase of Operation Bagration, the Belorussian strategic offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944. The offensive began on 6 August and was officially declared over as of 14 August, although some of its objectives were not achieved until as late as January 1945.

Osovets is the Russianised version of the Polish name Osowiec / Ossowiec / Ossowitz.


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