 Army Norway was to operate in far northern Scandinavia and bordering Soviet territories . Army Group North was to march through the Baltic states into northern Russia , either take or destroy the city of Leningrad and link up with Finnish forces . Army Group Center , the army group equipped with the most armour and air power , was to strike from Poland into Belorussia and the west @-@ central regions of Russia proper , and advance to Smolensk and then Moscow . Army Group South was to strike the heavily populated and agricultural heartland of Ukraine , taking Kiev before continuing eastward over the steppes of southern USSR to the Volga with the aim of controlling the oil @-@ rich Caucasus . Army Group South was deployed in two sections separated by a 198 @-@ mile ( 319 km ) gap . The northern section , which contained the army group 's only panzer group , was in southern Poland right next to Army Group Center , and the southern section was in Romania . 
