By 14 September , the eastern bank of the Vistula River opposite the Polish resistance positions was taken over Military_operation by the Polish troops fighting Hostile_encounter under the Soviet command Control ; 1,200 men made it across the river , but they were not reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by the Red Army .

The invasion Attack began Process_start with Charles 's crossing Motion_directional of the Vistula on 1 January 1708 , and effectively ended Process_end with the Swedish defeat Conquering in the Battle of Poltava on 8 July 1709 , though Charles continued to pose a military threat to Russia for several years while under the protection of the Ottoman Turks .

He entered Arriving Russia by crossing Motion_directional the frozen Vistula River at the head of 40,000 men , approximately half of them cavalry .

In a little over two weeks , the Red Army had advanced Cause_to_make_progress 300 miles ( 483 km ) from the Vistula to the Oder , only 43 miles ( 69 km ) from Berlin , which was undefended .

Sandomierz lies near the confluence of the Vistula and the San rivers , near the 13th-century border between the Kingdom of Poland and Mongol-controlled Red Ruthenia .

The invaders captured Conquering Sandomierz on 13 February 1241 , after crossing Motion_directional the frozen Vistula .

Prince Este garrisoned Hostile_encounter Warsaw with 10,000 soldiers , and split his remaining Temporary_stay forces , sending Sending some 6,000 troops under Gen. Johann Friedrich von Mohr to the right bank of the Vistula , and the rest towards Toruń and other targets on the left bank .

The borough of Praga , located right across the Vistula from Warsaw , was initially left GiveUp in Polish hands , garrisoned Control by a small force Military_operation of 600 men .

This allowed Preventing_or_letting the Red Army to reach Arriving the Vistula river and Warsaw , which in turn put Placing Soviet forces within striking distance of Berlin , conforming to the concept of Soviet deep operations—striking deep into the enemy 's strategic depths .

Operation Vistula ( ) was a codename for the 1947 forced resettlement of the Ukrainian minority as well as Boykos and Lemkos from the south-eastern provinces of post-war Poland , to the Recovered Territories in the west of the country .

Operation Vistula effectively brought Bringing an end Process_end to the hostilities .

The operation was named Name_conferral after the Vistula River , `` Wisła '' in Polish .

During Operation Vistula the conditions of the United Nations Charter of 26 June 1945 , on the right of self-determination and international laws , were respected .