The Archive · 1941

Threat to Kiev

For the present, the fresh German attacks in the Kiev and Leningrad sectors are not believed in London to be at blitzkrieg pace, but a threat to Kiev and actly to Odessa from the southern arm of the German pincer movement is certainly being seen. By getting to Belay: Tserkov, the Germans have reached one railway from Kiev to Odessa. but there is another line from which they are still a long way off e renewed activity towards Kiev and Leningrad is regarded as further evidence that the Nazis have been held up at Smolensk, temporarily at any rate. Earlier Stockholm reports said that arrangements been completed by the Nazis to relieve their exhausted front-line men for a renewed drive on Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa, but desi! attacks on their communications the Soviet forces have also benefited by the recent lull,

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