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Last week Joseph Stalin confirmed what Berlin had unhappily admitted two days earlier: the fall of Równe (Rovno) and Luck (Lutsk), an 85-mile thrust into old Poland. Vatutin had bypassed the German-held roads, sent his men into the hub-deep mud of swamps and forests. Outflanked, the Germans retreated...
Pobeda II. To the south 600 mi. another Red Army was driving forward on what was once foreign soil. Its chief was moon-faced General Nikolai Vatutin, captor of Kiev, perhaps Russia's most brilliant field commander...
This defeat delayed the Russian drive, but it did not necessarily imperil the Russian position. Behind the army of General Nikolai Vatutin lay a snow-swept steppe which offered the Germans no rich prize. By throwing all their waning strength into this battle the Germans betrayed their own fears-for the Bug, Bessarabia, the uneasy Balkans...
...Vatutin's Big Push was showing signs of exhaustion. His men were tired, his supply routes long. By & large, he had traversed the belt of German flight; now he was coming up against defenses his canny opponent, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, had had ample time to build...
...Army's Stavka (Supreme Command) this was a signal to turn to a well-tested stratagem: dispersed punching. German reserves had been shifted from above Vatutin's sectors north to south to succor Manstein. It was time to punch the weakened fronts...