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