580,000 askar 3,640 pucuk artileri 520 kereta kebal dan meriam serbuan 1,420 pesawat 80 kapal
150,000 askar (kebanyakan askar infantri berkelas rendah & askar sokongan bukan-Jerman) 2,100 pucuk artileri 125 kereta kebal dan meriam serbuan 350 pesawat 70 kapal
Kerugian dan korban
Pihak Soviet: 4,350 terkorban atau missing 14,488 cedera atau sakit 18,838 keseluruhan[3] Tentera Darat Bulgaria: Lebih 3,000 terkorban[4]
Partisan Yugoslavia: 2,953 terbunuh (serangan atas Belgrade sahaja)[5]
Penyerangan Belgrade atau operasi ofensif strategik Belgrade (Serbia: Београдска операцијаcode: sr is deprecated / Beogradska operacija; Rusia: Белградская стратегическая наступательная операцияcode: ru is deprecated , Belgradskaya strategicheskaya nastupatel'naya operatsiyacode: ru is deprecated ) (15 September 1944 – 24 November 1944)[6] adalah operasi ketenteraan semasa Perang Dunia II di Yugoslavia dimana Belgrade telah dibebaskan dari Wehrmacht Jerman melalui usaha sama Tentera Merah Soviet, Partisan Yugoslavia, dan Tentera Bulgaria.[7] Bala tentera Soviet dan militia tempatan melancarkan operasi bersepadu yang berasingan tetapi tidak teratur terhadap Jerman di Belgrade dan berjaya mengundurkan mereka.[8] Perancangan militari dikoordinasikan sama rata diantara pemimpin tentera, dan operasi ini sebahagian besarnya dihidupkan melalui kerjasama taktikal antara Josip Broz Tito dan Joseph Stalin yang bermula pada September 1944.[9][10] Persediaan militari ini membolehkan tentera Bulgaria terlibat dalam operasi diseluruh wilayah Yugoslavia, yang mana meneruskan kejayaan taktikal sambil meningkatkan perselisihan diplomatik.[11]
Objectif utama serangan Belgrade ialah membebaskan pendudukan Jerman ke atas Serbia, menawan Belgrade sebagai satu kubu strategik di rantau Balkan, dan memutuskan talian komunikasi Jerman antara Greece dan Hungary.[12] Penyerangan ini telah dipimpin oleh Barisan Ke-3 Ukraine Soviet dengan kerjasama Kor Pertama Yugoslavia. Operasi serentak di bahagian selatan melibatkan Tentera Darat Ke-2 Bulgaria dan Kor XIII Yugoslavia, dan pencerobohan Barisan Ke-2 Ukraine ke arah utara dari sempadan Yugoslav-Bulgaria memberi tekanan tambahan terhadap tentera Jerman.[13] Terdapat beberapa pertembungan antara tentera Bulgaria dan rejimen anti-partisan Jerman di Macedonia yang mewakili kempen operasi tempur paling selatan.[14][15]
^Tomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. 2. San Francisco: Stanford University Press. ISBN0-8047-3615-4. pp. 222–228.
^Иво Антонов, началник на отдел „Военни паметници и военно-патриотично възпитание“ при МО. В-к „Труд“, 05.11.2016 г.
^Biryuzov 1964, m/s. 260. sfn error: no target: CITEREFBiryuzov1964 (help)
^p.1116, Dupuy; Belgrade itself was taken on 20 October
^Ivan Laković, Dmitar Tasić, The Tito–Stalin Split and Yugoslavia's Military Opening toward the West, 1950–1954: In NATO's Backyard, The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series Authors, Lexington Books, 2016, ISBN1498539343, p. 203.
^p.615, Wilmot "[the Red Army] entered Belgrade ... at the same time as Tito's partisans."; p.152, Seaton; "The Russians had no interest in the German occupation forces in Greece and appear to have had very little interest in those retiring northwards through Yugoslavia...Stalin was content to leave to Tito and the Bulgarians the clearing of Yugoslav territory from the enemy."; Library of Congress Country Studies citing "information from Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1919–1945, Arlington, Virginia, 1976": "...Soviet troops crossed the border on October 1, and a joint Partisan-Soviet force liberated Belgrade on October 20."
^Biryuzov 1964, m/s. 83. sfn error: no target: CITEREFBiryuzov1964 (help)
^Biryuzov 1964, m/s. 270. sfn error: no target: CITEREFBiryuzov1964 (help)
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