VITAL RAILWAY
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' LONDON, September 5. A Russian communique says that the Red Army has captured Nikitovka, 27 miles north of Stalino, and has also taken Korop, 25 miles north-north-west of Konotop. The British United Press correspondent in Moscow says that the capture of ..Konotop represents the farthest point west the Russians have yet penetrated into the Ukraine. It strengthens the Russian wedge which has been thrust into the German positions south-west of Bryansk, and also brings them within 32 miles of the main lateral railway between Gomel and Kremenchug. The cutting of this railway would seal the fate of Gomel and split the German armies in northern and southern Russia.
Moscow radio claims that the Germans in one month's fighting on the Orel, Kursk, and • Byelgorod fronts lost 130,000 in killed and 125,000. captured/ and that 4600 tanks were destroyed or damaged, and nearly 2500 planes shot down.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 58, 6 September 1943, Page 5
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151VITAL RAILWAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 58, 6 September 1943, Page 5
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