Further to the north, increased Russian activity in the Velikieluki sector must be considered as an accompaniment to this Smolensk sector operation and designed primarily to prevent Germans using the main railway line for supplying troops in the Leningrad sector. This railway line, running just béhiod the main German lines through Mogilev and Vitebsk to Leningrad is, in increasingly unfavourable weather conditions in that boggy part of Russia, the Germans' main lifeline.
The German boasting about Len-ingram showed how conscious they were of their enormous concentrations of troops and equipment in that sector, made possible with the help and ly of 3 find especially of these lines through Vitebsk and through Pskov, which they are still holding.
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