Southwest of Kцnigsberg, the 3rd Belarussian Front forces fought on March 22 to defeat the enemy blocked near the coast of the Frisches Haff Bay in the vicinity of Heiligenbeil and drove enemy troops out of the settlements of Mukuhnen, Gabditten, Schirten, Heinrichshof and Helenenhof. On March 22, the Red Army captured more than 800 prisoners in the area.

Advancing towards Danzig, Soviet troops took the settlements of Kriefkohl, Guttland, Hohenstein, Schonwarling, Klein Kleschkau, Russoschin, Bangschin, Lehessen and Weltzendorf and captured over 500 prisoners on March 21.

Having penetrated the enemy defense west and south of the town of Oppeln, the 1st Ukrainian Front forces rammed 40 km ahead in each direction and, after linking up near the town of Neustadt, encircled and destroyed an enemy grouping southwest of the town of Oppeln.

The fighting resulted in about 15,000 prisoners taken and 21 aircraft, 57 tanks and self-propelled guns, 464 guns, over 1,000 machine guns, over 13,000 rifles and assault rifles, 3,000 motor vehicles, 27 locomotives, 1,520 railroad cars, 5,000 horses and 75 ammunition and rations depots seized. More than 30,000 enemy personnel were killed.

The offensive of Soviet troops resulted in their taking the German Schlesien towns of Neustadt, Kosel, Steinau, Sulz, Krappitz, Oberglogau and Falkenberg as well as over 400 other settlements, of which the largest were Lorenzberg, Arnsdorf, Striegendorf, Kuschmalz, Seiffersdorf, Stephansdorf, Gross Neudorf, Hermsdorf, Volkmannsdorf, Dittersdorf, Steubendorf, Sabschutz, Grobnig, Matzkirch, Schwerfelde and Gregorsdorf.

In Czechoslovakia, northeast and north of Zvolen, the Red Army operated in difficult wooded mountainous terrain of the Carpathians, taking over 40 settlements including of Bredana, Lubetova, Dubravica, Cerin, Badin, Selnica and Hainiki.

Near the lower reaches of the Drava River northeast of the town of Osiek, the enemy vaulted the river in two places and tried to seize a bridgehead. The determined attack by the Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Soviet Army forces defeated the enemy troops that had crossed the river, with the survivors being flung back to the southern Drava coast.

On March 21, 89 German tanks and self-propelled guns were damaged and destroyed and 51 enemy aircraft were downed on all fronts.