Following a protracted siege and bitter fighting, the 1st Ukrainian Front forces defeated the encircled enemy garrison in the city and fortress of Glogau, seizing this formidable Wehrmacht strongpoint on the left bank of the Oder.

More than 8,000 enemy personnel were taken prisoner and a lot of materiel was captured.

The 2nd Ukrainian Front carried on the advance, having seized the towns of Trnava, Glogovac, Senec – key road junctions and German strongpoints en route to Bratislava. The troops also took over 150 other Czechoslovak settlements, including such important towns as Vicapy-Opatovce, Asakert, Aleksince, Ujlak, Bab, Sintava, Velky Macad, Velky and Maly Diosek, Velky Fedemes, Farkasin, Cifer, Bachony, Elka, Narasd, Alistal, Velky Meder, Patas, Medwe and railroad stations Lovasovce, Zbegi, Aleksince, Velky Diosek, Gornystal, Ekec, and Velky Meder. At the same time, advancing along the southern bank of the Danube, the forces took the following settlements in Hungary – Asvany, Lipot, Dunaremete, Hodervar, Horvathkimle, Lebeny and Mosonszentpeter and the Lebeny, Horvathkimle, Hansacz and Mosonszentpeter railroad stations. During March 31 and April 1, 6,150 enemy personnel were taken prisoner.

The 3rd Ukrainian Front forces continued their advance, seizing the town of Sopron – a major railroad center and key enemy strongpoint on the approach to Vienna – and more than 100 other settlements in Hungary, among them Forterakos, Agfalva, Brennberg, Vaskeresztes, Pornoapati, Szent Peterfa and Pinkamindszent. At the same time, in Austria east and south of the town of Wiener Neustadt, the Front’s forces took control of over 30 settlements, including Rust, Trauersdorf, Sigendorf, Drassburg, Matersburg, Forchtenau, Bromberg and Kirchau. Southeast of Lake Balaton the 3rd Ukrainian Front forces in conjunction with the Bulgarian Army drove the enemy out of upwards of 60 settlements, including such major ones, as Kiskomarom, Galambok, Iharosbereny, Iharos, Egeraracsa, Ujudvar, Sanc, Bagola Sanc, Liszo, Surd and Gyekenyes and the Komarvaros and Szentjakob railroad stations. 

The fighting on March 31 resulted in taking more than 26,000 enemy personnel prisoner and seizing 127 aircraft, 17 tanks, 291 field guns, 1,547 machineguns, 1,390 wheeled vehicles, 27 steam engines and 1,516 railroad cars. In the town of Sopron, the Soviet forces released from jail the former commander of the Hungarian 2nd Army, Col.-Gen. Veres Lajos, who was dispatched then to command of the Provisional National Government of Hungary.

Reconnaissance operations and local fighting continued throughout the rest of the front.

On March 31, 46 enemy tanks and self-propelled guns were damaged or destroyed on all Fronts. 26 enemy aircraft were downed in aerial combat or by anti-aircraft guns.