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Word: kiev (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recapture the important rail station of Korosten, the German Command reportedly boosted its forces in the sector by eight fresh tank divisions. Moscow claimed that during the last month in this and other battles west of Kiev the enemy had lost 800 tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: One War in Europe | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Russia. The Red Army's major gain: the great stronghold of Gomel, on the central front, abandoned by the Germans after 27 months. At Kiev, in the one area where the Germans had showed much strength, the Nazi counterattacks slowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WEEK: To: Berlin, Rome, Tokyo | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...this desperate game audacity paid fat returns-or ended in disaster. It was audacity which led General Nikolai Vatutin, one of Russia's ablest exponents of blitz warfare, to strike west of Kiev with tanks and horsemen, without adequate infantry or cannon. The muddy roads delayed supplies and reinforcements, but the opportunity to deal the Wehrmacht a finishing blow was too tempting to forgo. Zhitomir fell (TIME, Nov. 22). The cavalry corps which took it seemed poised for a raid into prewar Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Counterattack | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Counterattack | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...Central Staff knows the total guerrilla strength, but it must run into hundreds of thousands. In the Army of the Bryansk Forest alone, 3,200 men and women won guerrilla and Red Army decorations. Other "Armies of the Forest" -between Kiev and Zhitomir (see map), in the Pripet Marshes, in White Russia and the Crimean Peninsula-are as big, or bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Armies of the Forest | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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