Bucharest–Arad Operation

Romanian Operation
	Part of the Great Patriotic War
	; Red Army operations in the Baltics and the Balkans, August 19 – December 31, 1944
Date	August 30 – October 3, 1944
Location	Romania
Result	Soviet–Romanian victory
Belligerents
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Romania	Germany; Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Rodion Malinovskiy; Gheorghe Avramescu	Johannes Frießner; Lajos Veress
Strength
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:; 681,556 people; Kingdom of Romania:; 138,000+ people;	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:; 8,447 irrecoverable; 46,839 sanitary; Kingdom of Romania:; 30,000–40,000 total;	Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Hungary:; 100,000+ killed; 18,000+ prisoners; (according to Soviet data);

The Bucharest–Arad Offensive was a frontline military operation of Soviet and Romanian Troops against the Wehrmacht and Hungarian Troops, conducted from August 30 to October 3, 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, as a result of which almost all of Romania was liberated from German–Hungarian Troops.