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...least, if they intended to fight for southern Russia, they might have been expected to stick doggedly to the Donets River line running southeast from Kharkov through Voroshilovgrad. But last week Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin's armies crossed the Donets and captured Izyum on the railway between Kharkov and Rostov. The fall of Izyum meant: 1) that the Red Army had a springboard for a jump toward Dniepropetrovsk 125 miles southwest; 2) that Kharkov was threatened by a pincer arm from the south; 3) that Voroshilovgrad (whose capture was apparently imminent) had in effect been bypassed some 90 miles...
...forces, completing a 125-mile thrust on skis and motorized sleds, captured Kursk, one of the main pivots of the German line in south Russia. This brilliant advance not only brought the Russians past the line from which the Germans began their 1941 offensive, but it cut Kharkov off from all its northern Nazi supply bases. The fall of Kursk also enables Colonel General Golikov's armies to swing south and close on Kharkov itself...
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...
Leader at Voronezh, where the Red Army is driving on Kursk and Kharkov, is Colonel General Filip I, Golikov, 48. A tall, husky man with a broad face, he is one of Russia's principal tank experts. At war's start he was a key member of the General Staff, but when Moscow was threatened he took command of a field army. His offensive may well turn out to be the most important of all the winter drives...
Cavalryman of the Southwest, where one army is moving side-by-side with Golikov's troops toward Kharkov and another is pushing down the railway below Millerovo toward Rostov, is Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin, 42. Another veteran of the Czarist Army and the Revolution, Vatutin was an Army commander in the Ukraine when the Germans invaded it. He skillfully retreated from the Dnei-per Bend, then helped Marshal Timoshenko launch successful counterattacks...