On January 27 our forces, continuing their successful offensive on their way to Konigsberg, secured the town and railway junction of Gerdauen and over 300 other settlements, including such important points as Postnicken, Schaakswitte, Gallgarben, Powunden, Knoppelsdorf, Neuhausen (7 kilometers to the northwest of Konigsberg), Steinbek, Borchersdorf, Tomsdorf, Blankenau, Allenau, Bartchersdorf, Friedenberg, and Dietrichsdorf.

The forces of the Second and Third Belorussian Fronts comleted the breakdown of powerfully fortified line of German defenses among Masurian Lakes, which the Nazis had thought to be impassable since the First World War, to secure the towns of Barten, Drengfurt, Rastenburg, Rhein, Nikolainen, Rudschannie, Puppen, Babinten, Tearvisch, and over 250 other settlements.

At an airfield near Marienburg, the forces of the Second Belorussian Front seized 34 German aircraft.

To the northwest of the town of Allenstein, our forces repulsed strong mounted westward enemy counterattacks, inflicting heavy casualties and damage upon the enemy.

To the south of the town of Kulm, our forces fought their way across the Vistula and, seizing a bridgehead on the western bank of the river, joined friendly forces acting to the north of the town of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg). Encircling an enemy garrison in the town of Torun, our forces were bearing down on it on the previous day.

To the north, west, and south of the town of Poznan, the forces of the First Belorussian Front, continuing their successful offensive, secured the towns of Kohlmar, Budzin, Richenwalde, Oborniki, Szamter, Buk, Stanszew, Schrimm, Cempin, Dolzig, and over 500 other settlements. In the town of Poznan, out forces completed the encirclement of an enemy force and started bearing down on it.

The forces of the First Ukrainian Front, continuing their successful offensive, on January 27 secured the towns of Sosnowiec, Bendzin, Dombrowa Gurne, Czeladz, and Myslowice, major mining towns of the Dombrow coal basin, and also secured the Polish towns of Kobylin, Bojanowo, Oswiecim, and the German towns of Wolau, Dichernfurt, and Obernigk.

The forces of the Fourth Ukrainian Front, continuing their successful offensive on the restricted Carpathian mountainous and foresty terrain, on January 27 secured the towns of Wadowice, Spiska Nowa Ves, Spiska Stara Ves, and Levoca — important transport junctions and defense areas, and over 50 other settlements.

In Budapest, our forces bearing down on the encircled enemy force took over another 10 blocks.

To the southwest of Budapest, our forces successfully repulsed mounted enemy attacks and secured several settlements in sweeping counterattacks, thus gaining advantageous positions.

On January 26 our forces eliminated 42 German tanks on all fronts, of which 29 tanks were killed to the southwest of Budapest. The Soviet air and air defense forces downed  36 enemy aircraft.