It resulted in a decisive victory for the USSR, as it greatly sped up the ending of World War II in Europe.

The Red Army occupied Bucharest on 31 August, then swept westward across the Carpathian Mountains into Hungary and southward into Bulgaria, with parts joining the Yugoslav Partisans in the Belgrade offensive.

The road to Vienna, Czechoslovakia and the southern border of Germany was widely open for the Soviets and their allies.

[8] According to Soviet claims, the Germans and Hungarians in Budapest lost 49,000 dead soldiers, with 110,000 captured and 269 tanks destroyed.

The expansive goals of this operation were to protect one of the last oil producing regions available to the Axis and to retake Budapest.