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...turned, within eight mi. of Melitopol, within 20 mi. of the Dnieper, 25 mi. of Smolensk, 35 mi. of Kiev and 115 mi. of the old Polish border, Moscow remained closemouthed. Yet the war maps spelled clearly the Red Army's immediate objectives: Smolensk, Kiev, the Dnieper, the Crimea...
...there was many a sign that Malinovsky's fast-moving army might yet swerve south to help Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin seal the narrow Crimean bottleneck. If these two able generals succeeded, the German forces in the Crimea and Kuban-perhaps as many as 300,000 men- would find themselves trapped within a huge nutcracker, one jaw pressing from the Ukraine, the other from the Caucasus. Russia's Black Sea Fleet, based on recaptured Novorossiisk, would add to the Wehrmacht's woes...
These victories put the German defense system east of the Dnieper out of joint, menaced the Nazi forces in the south with entrapment, jeopardized the German hold on the Crimea. This week Berlin reported new threats: Soviet Union troops had landed at Novorossiisk; new drives had been launched off Vyazma and Leningrad. And Moscow itself jubilantly announced the Red Army was nearing Roslavl...
...Poltava falls to the Red Army from Kharkov, the maiden's soldier will threat en Kiev and all the German forces in the Crimea and the Donets bend...
...will emerge onto open, forest-free flatland ideal for swift, grand-scale tank maneuvers and mobile warfare. The Germans already fear the loss of this year's harvest in the Ukraine. Trapped by a push that threatens to reach the southern anchor of the Dnieper line and the Crimea, they would be up against a more fearful strategic problem: to retreat would mean giving up their greatest prize; to stand and fight it out would be risking annihilation of approximately...