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...plain and most of the well-sprung limousines are up on blocks. Rouge and a touch of the eyebrow pencil help to keep the officers looking smart, but in their hearts they know that soon they will have to fight or run away. The Russians are over the Prut; the end of an era cannot...
Cleaning Up. This week, after several days of inactivity (probably waiting for supplies to catch up), Marshal Konev's Central Ukrainian Army pushed across the Prut River and resumed its southward and westward march, narrowing the Nazi escape corridor from the Ukraine and at the same time mopping up Bessarabia and penetrating Rumania proper...
...Prut was Czarist Russia's boundary with Rumania. In 1918 Rumania received Bessarabia as a reward for joining the Allies, pushed the frontier back to the Dniester, where it remained until...
...River Bug until well into May. For the Ukraine, like a ship divided into many compartments, is divided by rivers running north and south, each of which forms a defense line: Behind the Dnieper lies the Bug, behind the Bug lies the Dniester, behind the Dniester lies the Prut...
...Ukrainian front, had done very well by breaking through with heavy concentrations of guns and tanks into Bucovina. But Konev, in the center, had pushed farthest. He had already crossed the Bug and the Dniester. This week his army held a 50-mile front along the sandy Prut river, nowhere wider than 300 yards...