WEST OF KHARKOV
IMPORTANT RAILWAY TOWN TAKEN BY RUSSIANS
SOME SOVIET FORCES WITHIN 60 MILES OF DNIEPER.
THREAT TO POLTAVA-KIEV LINE
LONDON, August 29. The Russian armies Avon an important battle today in an assault on strong German lines which have held up pfo-
i' gress south and south-west of X Kharkov. The Soviet forces have taken an important railway centre twelve miles south-west of Kharkov. They may now be able to outflank a system of pillboxes and minefields which the Germans have been holding with strongforces of tanks and infantry.
A Moscow communique reports that in general, on the Kharkov front, west and south of the city, the Russians have advanced four to seven miles and taken over 50 places. It may be inferred that some of this progress is in the Ukraine, 100 miles west of Kharkov, where the Russians are advancing towards the Poltava-Kiev railway and are within sixty miles of the River Dnieper. The Russian offensive south of Bryansk is also going well. Advances of four to nine miles are reported in different sectors.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1943, Page 3
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178WEST OF KHARKOV Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1943, Page 3
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