CUT BY RUSSIANS
Major Kharkov Railway
LONDON, August 11. Moscow announces tonight that the Russians have cut the important Kharkov-Poltava railway due west of Kharkov. Good progress has been maintained north-west of Kharkov and on the Bryansk front.
•The Soviet communique announcing the cutting of this, one of the last life-lines of the German garrison in Kharkov, says that the Red Army is now astride of the line at several points. Advances of from 10 to .12 miles were made on the front today.
During* the day the Russians reoccupied over 10 inhabited localities, and among- them was a town 65 miles north-west of Kharkov and another town 30 miles west of the city.
On the Bryansk front the Russians pushed forward from three to six miles and captured over 70 towns and villages including a town 12 miles east of Karachev.
The Soviet communique adds that in yesterday's fighting on all fronts the Russians knocked out 85 tanks and shot down 86 Luftwaffe machines.
The German radio quotes a German High Command report admitting that the Red Army has broken into the German lines on the upper Donets, and adding that hard and fluctuating battles are in progress in this region.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 37, 12 August 1943, Page 5
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202CUT BY RUSSIANS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 37, 12 August 1943, Page 5
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