Operation Bagration ( ; , Operatsiya Bagration ) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation , ( , Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya `` Bagration '' ) a military campaign fought Hostile_encounter between 23 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II .

On 23 June 1944 , the Red Army attacked Attack Army Group Centre in Byelorussia , with the objective of encircling Besieging and destroying Destroying its main component armies .

With the end Process_end of effective German resistance in Byelorussia , the Soviet offensive continued further to Lithuania , Poland and Romania over the course of July and August .