GOOD PROGRESS
MADE BY THE RUSSIANS IN ADVANCES ON KHARKOV & BRYANSK. ENEMY ROUTE OF ESCAPE NARROWED. LONDON, August 12. Tonight’s Soviet communique announces- several more striking successes for the Red Army. With the occupation of three stations on the railway running south-west from Kharkov to Poltava and Kiev, the Red Army is within 40 miles of Poltava, and it has advanced farther to the west than in last winter’s offensive on this front, when the Russians for a time had recaptured Kharkov. They have now narrowed the neck of the Germans’ Kharkov sack to less than 40 miles, with two railways leading out —to Krasnograd and Lozovaya.
The Russians are only 30 miles from the German’s last railway line to Kharkov. Soviet forces have also pushed closer to Kharkov from the north. Among 30 inhabited places recaptured today is one only five miles north-east .of the city. On the Bryansk front the Russians pushed forward today six to seven miles and have reoccupied over 100 places. In fighting on all fronts yesterday, the Russians knocked out 56 German tanks and shot down 38 planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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