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Show RFVIEW of russiajn AND PACIFIC MOVES EXPLAIN WARFARE The Russian offensive in the Ukraine promises important territorial ter-ritorial gains and offers some "ope of inflicting the greatest Sefeat upon the Germans since Stalingrad. Now, the Soviet armies are moving to cut vital east-west railway rail-way iines which are essential to the withdrawal of German troops into Rumania. When the year opened the Rus-. Rus-. T,tintr on a 200-mile sians wtic i.i6"-"-o front west of Kiev, some distance from Poland. The First Ukrainian army advanced well inside the Polish border. Immediately they launched another offensive in White Russia, in the Pripet Marshes Mar-shes and followed shortly with an attack in the Leningrad section. The next offensive trapped ten Nazi divisions on the Ukrainian front and shortly after Moscow reported five other divisions trapped trap-ped in the Dnieper bend. A new; offensive began in the north near Luga, about the time that Knvoi . Rog fell. Late in February the offensive was underway in the north with relative quiet on the central and southern fronts. This was altered by the present strong offensive, running from Poland .to the Black Sea. As soon a this situation clears up the prospect is for another an-other drive into Poland unless the entire German southern line collapses col-lapses in which case the Russians will probably try to reach Rumania. |