8 July 1944
The Äyräpää bridgehead is lost. Only II/IR57 and parts of III/IR49 are on the south side of the river in Kylä-Paakkola area, unable to launch counter-attacks against the lost bridgehead. By the next day, these troops also withdraw to the Vuosalmi side of Vuoksi.
The fighting over the ~300m deep bridgehead has been costly for both sides; of the 6,000-7,000 Finns that took part in the fighting, over half became casualties, 423 of them dead. According to Soviet 98 AK's records, they lost 5,300 men, of which over 1,000 dead.
Finnish daily losses: 258
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