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Other echoes rumbled all along the front. In the Dnieper bulge, great tank battles flared up and died down of sheer exhaustion. In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted. Fearfully, Germans spoke of Russian troops massed thickly along the 300-mile front south of Leningrad...
...heard about 30,000 and about the same number in Kiev...
Russia. The Red Army blunted the Wehrmacht's most serious counter-threat: its strong wedge in the Kiev sector...
...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...
...weeks this reckless expenditure of armor kept Moscow worried. The loss of Kharkov in similar circumstances last March was still fresh in everyone's mind; would Kharkov's fate befall Kiev? But by a prodigious effort, General Nikolai Vatutin halted the German advance. As in the summer, Russian artillery won its duel with German armor...