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Just as carefully they refrained from confirming or denying one of the most significant reports since the Russian counteroffensive began: that Russian forces have flanked the central German armies around Smolensk and have pushed into White Russia, a scant 70 to 85 miles from the old Polish frontier...
Russian columns streamed through White Russia, by-passing German strong points in a concerted series of thrusts calculated to whittle up the invasion army and render untenable the all-important Smolensk base...
...central front, they drove for the important Smolensk-Bryansk line...
Fresh Russian troops from the East led a vigorous offensive below Leningrad Sunday, seeking to shatter the whole left wing of the German invasion army, while further south other Soviet forces converged on Smolensk and doggedly fought westward in the Ukraine...
There were increasing evidences that on the bitterly cold eastern front German resistance was stiffening and the Soviet offensive--now 10 weeks old--was slowing its rate of advance. It had not been stopped, however, and Russian salients below Leningrad and stabbing towards Smolensk and westward in the Ukraine constituted a real threat to the whole Nazi line...