Moravian–Ostrava offensive

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The Moravian–Ostrava offensive was a major late-World War II Soviet operation in 1945 aimed at liberating the industrial region around Ostrava in present-day Czech Republic from German forces.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II battle
military offensive
belligerent Czechoslovak units
Nazi Germany
Poland
Soviet Union
casualties heavy on both sides
combatType land warfare
commander Andrey Yeremenko NERFINISHED
Ivan Konev
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov
commandingUnit 4th Ukrainian Front
conflict World War II
countryDuringConflict Czechoslovakia
endDate 1945-05-06
followedBy Prague Offensive
surface form: Prague offensive
frontLineMovement advance from southern Poland into Moravia
goal defeat of German forces in Moravia
liberation of Ostrava industrial region
historicalPeriod late stages of World War II
involvedUnit 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union
surface form: 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps

1st Polish Army
surface form: Polish 1st Army
involvement Luftwaffe
Red Army
location Czechoslovakia
Moravia
Ostrava
present-day Czech Republic
militaryTheater Central European theater of World War II
notableFor role in cutting German lines in Central Europe
urban and industrial-area fighting
objective capture of Ostrava coal basin
securing approaches to Prague
opposingForce Army Group Centre
surface form: German Army Group Centre

Wehrmacht
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
Red Army offensives of 1945
precededBy Vistula–Oder Offensive
surface form: Vistula–Oder offensive
result German retreat from Moravia
Soviet victory
liberation of Ostrava
startDate 1945-03-10
strategicImportance major industrial region with coal and steel production
supportingUnit Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front
surface form: 2nd Ukrainian Front
tookPlaceInYear 1945
typeOfOperation combined arms offensive

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38th Army (Red Army) participatedIn Moravian–Ostrava offensive
German 1st Panzer Army engagedIn Moravian–Ostrava offensive
this entity surface form: Moravia–Ostrava Offensive
4th Ukrainian Front engagedIn Moravian–Ostrava offensive
this entity surface form: Moravian-Ostrava Offensive