Gen. Dobroserdov described the battle for Kiev.
"With this weight of numbers (four divisions) the Germans occupied the suburb of Stalinka and one height commanding a city known as Golseyev and also the surrounding woods, "Our troops then brought up artillery, trained it on the danger points and expelled the Germans from their positions, driving them away. The Russian forces then entrenched themselves.
"In these combats," Gen. Dobroserdev said, Soviet troops gave the coup de grace tothe 95th and 44th divisions and routed the "71st and 299th divisions which lost 70 to 80 per cent. of their effective manpower."
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