NEW PUSH TO RIVER
BEGUN BY RED ARMY
LONDON, September 22. The Russians. have started a swift new drive towards the Dnieper. The capture of one town announced tonight brings our allies within eight miles of the river at a point less than 15 miles north of the hig river town of Cherkassy. This latest thrust has been made from the southern flank of the Russian wedge pushing towards Kiev.
The Russians haye also taken the town of Oster, .which stands on the Desna River less than 40 miles north of Kiev. In a day of gains from Smolensk to the Black Sea particularly important gains are reported in the Gomel direction.
The communique also reports advances of several miles in the direction of Dnepropetrovsk and a railway town 16 miles north-east of the city is now in Russian hands.
In the extreme south the capture of the Black Sea port of Anapa, already admitted by the Germans, narrows the German bridgehead across the Taman Peninsula to 27 miles and leaves the enemy holding only a lagoon area.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1943, Page 7
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