Novorzhev Offensive

DATE: 22/01/2023

TIME (GMT): 19:00

ERA: WW2

MAP(S): Summa Winter

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): Seedorf for Brothers in Arms

SLOTS: 88 / 91

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RATING: (20)

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The Leningrad Novgorod strategic offensive was a strategic offensive during World War II. It was launched by the Red Army on January 14, 1944 with an attack on the German Army Group North by the Soviet Volkhov and Leningrad fronts, along with part of the 2nd Baltic Front, with a goal of fully lifting the siege of Leningrad. Approximately two weeks later, the Red Army regained control of the Moscow Leningrad railway, and on January 26, 1944 Joseph Stalin declared that the siege of Leningrad was lifted, and that German forces were expelled from the Leningrad Oblast.
    
Part of that Offensive was the Novorzhev offensive. On 18 February, Soviet troops of the 2nd Baltic Front, carried out this operation in cooperation with part of the Leningrad Front against the German 16th Army of Army Group North with the aim of liberating the area southwest
of Lake Ilmen and creating the conditions for further offensives. As a result of the operation, the Soviet troops, pursuing the  retreating enemy, advanced up to 180 kilometers to the West, liberating many cities and towns, including Staraya Russa, Novorzhev, Dno and Putoshka.