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...Dnieper U. In a four-day battle, his Third Ukrainian Army drove through 30-odd miles of enemy defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared out. Germany will face the prospect that both ends of its once well-knit line will come unraveled...
...acquired certain important advantages. Its supply lines from home bases have shrunk by hundreds of miles. Its railroads are in working order, whereas the Russians are still rebuilding theirs. The Red Army's bold tactics have of necessity exposed a number of vulnerable points-Zhitomir, Fastov, Krivoi Rog-which the Germans were quick to attack. Though most of these thrusts have been repulsed, they did halt the tide of the Red offensive. Finally, the Wehrmacht apparently has reserves which it has now thrown into the battle (at Zhitomir, the German force was estimated...
...Berlin reported a major break-through near Krivoi Rog by a Russian army of 500,000. Such a thrust would end the last German resistance within the Dnieper bend...
Reassured, the Wehrmacht pulled some troops out of Kiev, rushed them south to help hold Krivoi Rog. Only then did peasant-faced, tank-wise Vatutin (by now, for unannounced reasons, in full command) give the order to attack. His veteran troopers stood on the heights before Kiev and wept with anger and sorrow at the sight of flames eating through the city. Then, with fury in their hearts, they swept down upon...
...Krivoi Rog, the Wehrmacht continued its desperate, costly-and thus far successful-struggle to keep open an escape corridor for the forces still within the Dnieper bend...