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...first time in 1944 Moscow said: "No important changes. ... " The great Mud Offensive, which in seven weeks had swept from the Dnieper to the Carpathians, had ground to a halt...
...German Sixth Army (reconstituted since Stalingrad) chewed up on the Dnieper...
...they could take their time in retiring. They probably expected to hold the Russians on the River Bug until well into May. For the Ukraine, like a ship divided into many compartments, is divided by rivers running north and south, each of which forms a defense line: Behind the Dnieper lies the Bug, behind the Bug lies the Dniester, behind the Dniester lies the Prut...
Along the 500-mile-long front, from the Dnieper's mouth to the Carpathians, four Red Armies hacked their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...
This week a fourth Army-presumably General Feodor Tolbukhin's-crossed the lower Dnieper, struck beyond Kherson. Said Moscow in jubilation: the defeat was becoming a catastrophe...