The Soviet Leningrad Front's (Govorov) 23rd Army (Shvetsov) was assigned the task of making a crossing and a breakthrough at Vuosalmi.

[citation needed] Total: 8 infantry divisions, 80-90 tanks or assault/self-propelled guns and around 600 field artillery pieces or heavy mortars.

The following Finnish counterattacks in Vuosalmi at this point amounted to limited success, and thus both sides were on the defensive by mid-July.

The Finnish field artillery fired altogether over 122,000 rounds of ordnance in Äyräpää and Vuosalmi, from June 20 to July 17 – the same amount as in the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, which was fought during exactly the same time period in a nearby vicinity, on the relatively narrow Karelian Isthmus of Finland.

When comparing the 8 day period of the most intensive fighting, significantly more artillery rounds were fired in Vuosalmi (74,000) than in Tali-Ihantala (56,000).

[4] The commander of the Soviet Leningrad Front, Marshal Leonid Govorov heavily criticized the 23rd Army, 98th Corps and 115th Corps commanders when the offensive in Vuosalmi failed to yield any concrete results, despite the heavy casualties sustained.