battle, major, interwar and Second World War
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive was a battle fought in 1944 at Western Ukraine, in what is now Ukraine. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Western Ukraine. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Soviet victory.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1944 (year precision) to 1944 | |
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| Place | Western Ukraine, Ukraine 50.000N, 26.000E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | On 1 July 1944: 547,000 ration strength; (incl. rear support services); 440,512 actual strength; (in divisions and GHQ combat units); 850 operational tanks and assault guns; 978 tanks and assault guns in total (incl. in repairs); 976 guns; 1,000 aircraft; 255,000 ration strength; (1 July 1944) | 1,002,200 men; 1,979 AFVs; 11,265 guns |
| Casualties and losses | 55,000 killed, missing and captured; 136,860 overall; Casualty reports of the army group for 11 July–31 August 1944: - 16,438 killed; - 69,895 wounded; - 57,500 missing; - 143,833 in total; 30,000+ killed, wounded and missing in total | 65,001 killed, missing or captured; 224,295 wounded; 1,269 tanks and SP guns; 289 aircraft; - 289,296 in total |
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The ground today


The recorded site stands at about 0 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 0 to 316 m, 316 m of relief, hilly country and today it is 69% cropland, 16% grassland, 12% tree cover.
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.Nearest engagements
- Siege of Zbarazh 1649, 41 km SW
- Battle of Brody 1941, 62 km W
- Battle of Jaroslawice date unknown, 66 km SW
- Battle of Zboriv 1649, 71 km SW
- Rovno–Lutsk Offensive 1944, 71 km N
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Amfilochia 1944
- After: Raid on Symi 1944
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1944
- Battle of Leyte Gulf Philippines
- Battle of the Philippine Sea Japan
- Battle of Peleliu Palau
- Operation Ichi-Go China
- Battle of Saipan United States
Combat data (CDB90)
| Attacker: SOV 91ST RIFLE CORPS | Defender: GER 171ST, 214TH & 26TH INF DIVS | |
| Strength | 12,700 | 5,100 |
| Casualties | 1,150 (9.1%) | 320 (6.3%) |
| Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 | 6 | 5 |
| Outcome | attacker won | |
| Duration | 2 days | |
| Front width | 10 km | 10 km |
| Attacker advanced | 3.9 km | |
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 508), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 321 in present-day Ukraine.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q313748, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive, revision 1384860518, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.