The German Order of Battle for mid-July showed units from a large number of divisions in the area, but many of these were fragments that had escaped from the encirclement of the bulk of Army Group Centre in the previous phases of Operation Bagration; see deployments below.
The Neman river line defenses were hastily prepared and rarely had the sufficient manpower to withstand a concentrated Russian attack.
Using the success of the Tank Corps, the troops of the 33rd Army entered and secured Vilkaviškis and the railway station of Mariampolė on 31 July.
During August, Raus's Third Panzer Army was reinforced and mounted a counter-offensive on the front's northern flank in Operation Doppelkopf.
Having countered these, the 3rd Belorussian Front's troops moved a further 30–50 km and advanced towards deliberately prepared German fortified positions on the line east of Raseiniai and Kybartai - Suwałki.