Word: dnieper
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Cherkassy lay on the middle Dnieper's right bank, and the approaches to it were swept by German gunfire. To the northwest spread dense, dark forests, infested by guerrillas...
Hastily, the German Command threw tanks into a counterattack. The Russians were dislodged from a village they had already occupied, and driven back into the forest. But what they were meant to do, they had done; while the German attention was diverted, Russian infantrymen crossed the Dnieper, seized a bridgehead between the areas where the Red Army broke across the river in the last month. On to this foothold poured reinforcements of airborne and parachute troops...
...weapons and supplies headed toward the Kiev bulge are funneled through three temporary Dnieper bridges. The strain on them will not be lightened until the Dnieper freezes over in another three or four weeks...
...This week, the Eastern Front no longer surged westward. Instead, it had become a fluid line, moving east at some points, moving west at many, static at most. Though handicapped, the Red units in the western Ukraine still presented a force seemingly too formidable to be swept into the Dnieper by the battered Wehrmacht. The Germans, despite their sudden show of strength, stood on a line which was easily pierced. In all likelihood the Nazi counterattacks were not a general, coordinated offensive, but were local attacks, intended merely to halt the Russians until the German defenses in the rear...
...Berlin reported a major break-through near Krivoi Rog by a Russian army of 500,000. Such a thrust would end the last German resistance within the Dnieper bend...