Bratislava was captured by the evening of 4 April in the second week of the operation. With the support of the 27th Tank Brigade and the Danube Flotilla, Soviet soldiers of the 23rd Rifle Corps and the 25th Guards Rifle Corps (both part of the 7th Guards Army) pushed German troops out of the city. On the night of 3 April, Germans destroyed all major bridges over the Danube. The defense of Bratislava consisted of units of the German 6th Army and Hungarian 3rd Army. President Tiso and the government of the puppet Slovak State had already left the capital and by 5 April found asylum in Austrian monastery of Kremsmünster. On 2 April the battle of Bratislava started when the Soviet units captured the Airport in Vajnory. However, on 26 March 1945 the Romanian 4th Army liberated Banská Bystrica, the centre of the Slovak National Uprising, defeated in the previous year. The advance of 53rd Army in the central Slovakia was slower due to the hilly terrain and the movement of the 40th Army in the mountains was even slower.
Then the 7th Guards Army quickly rushed across the Danubian Lowland towards Bratislava. Group of Red Army platoons, the Danube Fleet, after liberation of Komárno in April 1944 March 29, when Red Army units conquered Komárom (with part of Komárno) in Hungary and Nové Zámky in Slovakia. To speed up the process, Marshal Malinovsky ordered the ships of the Soviet Danube Fleet between the villages of Moča and Radvaň nad Dunajom to land the 83rd Marine Brigade on our Danube banks in the rear of the enemy, thus helping to break through the enemy's defenses. These units were assisted by ships of the Soviet Danube Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Klostakakov and members of the 83rd Independent Marine Brigade. The breakthrough had a width of 17 kilometres (11 mi) and within two days the army had advanced about 35 kilometres (22 mi) west to Nové Zámky. The offensive Advance to Bratislava Īt the beginning of the offensive the 7th Guards Army, in a surprise night attack, broke through defenses of German 153rd and 357th Infantry Divisions on the river Hron. The 2nd Ukrainian Front, which was located between the 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, was assigned the mission to capture Bratislava and Brno. On 10 March, the 4th Ukrainian Front began the Moravian-Ostrava offensive, and on 15 March 3rd Ukrainian Front began the Vienna offensive. In the spring of 1945, the Red Army launched a major offensive on the southern wing of the Eastern Front. The offensive was held between 25 March and using the forces of the 2nd Ukrainian Front to capture the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, and the capital of Moravia, Brno. The Bratislava–Brno offensive was an offensive conducted by the Red Army in western Slovakia and south Moravia towards the end of World War II.
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