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MOSCOW--Russian troops sweeping down on Kharkov from the north yesterday captured the ancient city of Belgorod, railroad junction and German anchor post 45 miles above the industrial capital on the Ukraine, the Red Army announced today...
...most of the industrially rich Donets basin. Fortnight ago, the Red Army seemed to have a chance to threaten this "last line." This week, after they completed the repossession of Voronezh and swept westward, the Russians were actually attacking the outer bastions of that line near Kursk and Belgorod. To the south, beyond Kharkov, the Germans' maximum hope was to hold a bulge protecting that key city and the northern approaches to Rostov. Of these objectives, the greatest gain for the Russians and the greatest loss to the Germans would be Kharkov, fulcrum of the entire Axis line lying...