On 25 June, the Soviet troops encircled and soon defeated the Vitebsk fortified area. The troops of the 1st Baltic Front, together with the troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front, surrounded 5 enemy ...

Vitebsk was liberated from the Nazi invaders on 26 June 1944, on the third day after the start of the Belarusian offensive operation Bagration, one of the largest military operations of the Great ...

Operation Bagration was Germany’s worst military defeat of World War II - and one of the most devastating offensives in history. Launched by the Soviet Union in the summer of 1944, this massive ...