Word: dniester
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...Prut was Czarist Russia's boundary with Rumania. In 1918 Rumania received Bessarabia as a reward for joining the Allies, pushed the frontier back to the Dniester, where it remained until...
...Eighth Infantry and First Tank Armies wiped up between the Bug and the Dniester...
...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...
...broad estuaries of the big rivers. Marshal Zhukov, at the northern end of the Ukrainian front, had done very well by breaking through with heavy concentrations of guns and tanks into Bucovina. But Konev, in the center, had pushed farthest. He had already crossed the Bug and the Dniester. This week his army held a 50-mile front along the sandy Prut river, nowhere wider than 300 yards...
Marshal Ivan Konev's army fought its way across the Bug, raced over 60 muddy miles in two days, crossed the Dniester with scarcely a change in pace. Said a British newsman in Moscow of ex-Lumberjack Konev: "He has done the unexpected, the unbelievable, the impossible...