Baltic strategic defensive operation

Baltic operation (1941)
Part of Operation Barbarossa during the Eastern Front of World War II
Date 22 June – 9 July 1941 Location Baltic states, USSR Result German victory Successful German offensive Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and parts of western Byelorussia placed under a civilian occupation government under Reichskommissariat Ostland
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Wilhelm R. von Leeb Georg von Küchler Ernst Busch Erich Hoepner Alfred Keller	Fyodor Kuznetsov Pyotr Sobennikov Vasili Morozov [ru] Nikolai Berzarin Gustav Jonson
Units involved
Army Group North 18th Army 16th Army 4th Panzer Group Luftflotte 1 3rd Panzer Group (parts)	Northwestern Front 8th Army 11th Army 27th Army
Strength
655,000 1,389 tanks 7,673 artillery pieces 1,070 aircraft	786,000[1] 1,393 tanks 5,573 artillery pieces 1,210 aircraft
Casualties and losses
4,878 killed 14,976 wounded [2]	75,202 killed 13,284 wounded 2,523 tanks & SPGs destroyed[3] 990 aircraft destroyed[3] Total: 88,486 casualties[1]

The Baltic strategic defensive operation (Russian: Прибалтийская стратегическая оборонительная операция) encompassed the operations of the Red Army from 22 June to 9 July 1941 conducted over the territories of the occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in response to the offensive launched by the Wehrmacht in Operation Barbarossa.