The German news agency DNB. yesterday said that panzer units operating in the Dneister region on July 20 captured 10,000 prisoners and bombed or destroyed 220 Soviet tanks and 40 guns.
Soviet counter-attacks against German troops advancing east of Smolens on Sunday and Monday collapsed, with the Nazis causing severe and bloody Soviet losses, said D.N.B. Many Soviet prisoners were captured and numerous Soviet tanks were destroyed, the news agency said. D.N.B. said German panzer troops on Sunday destroyed 98 Soviet tanks in another region In the Vitebsk area Soviet tanks in several waves attacked the Germans but all attacks were repulsed with heavy Soviet losses said D.N.B. One German panzer division alone destroyed 73 of 130 attacking Soviet tanks, said the news agency.
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