Shoot down the enemy at any cost. “I realized that it was the Germans who opened fire on our territory”

Latitude: 55.75, Longitude: 37.62 Time zone: Europe/Moscow (UTC+03:00) Moon phase calculation for 06/1/1941 (12:00) To calculate the phase of the moon for your city, register or log in.

Characteristics of the Moon on June 27, 1941

On the date 27.06.1941 V 12:00 The moon is in phase "Waxing Crescent". This 4 lunar day in the lunar calendar. Moon in zodiac sign Leo ♌. Illumination percentage Moon accounts for 7%. Sunrise Moon at 06:48, and sunset at 22:24.

Chronology of lunar days

3rd lunar day from 05:44 06/26/1941 to 06:48 06/27/1941
4th lunar day from 06:48 06/27/1941 until the next day

Moon influence June 27, 1941

Moon in the zodiac sign Leo (±)

Moon in a sign a lion. The Moon in Leo favors all energetic and effective undertakings: from organizing sports or cultural events to a corporate party aimed at uniting the team for fruitful cooperation.

Many people are drawn to communication and entertainment. These days, almost all entertainment venues receive stable income. This is especially true for casinos, betting shops and slot machine halls, since the moon in Leo brings a penchant for adventure and increases reckless risk-taking.

For the same reason, it is worth postponing all serious financial matters related to large funds. To avoid losses, you should not formalize transactions with real estate, shares or sign serious contracts. Most people on this day show a tendency to inflated self-esteem and the tendency to flattery becomes more acute than ever.

4th lunar day (±)

June 27, 1941 at 12:00 - 4 lunar day. Due to increased diplomacy, the day is good for active contacts and trade operations. When making decisions, you should refrain from superficial judgments, as the tendency to take unreasonable risks increases.

Waxing Moon (+)

The moon is in phase Waxing Crescent. The first lunar phase begins from the new moon until the beginning of the first quarter of the Moon (the beginning of the second phase). IN this period The moon is at the beginning of its growth. The first phase is characterized by an increase in energy to complete planned tasks.

During this period, it is recommended to make plans and start new projects, weigh and outline plans for the development of new ideas, carefully analyze problems and issues, both of the future period and those that remained unrealized from the previous lunar month.

At the physiological level, first lunar phase the body accumulates strength. Energy is still quite low in all areas of life, be it well-being, personal life or business.

As in work, in the personal sphere there comes a stage of rethinking current relationships and, quite possibly, bringing them to the most high level. New connections and acquaintances quickly arise. Together with the growth of the Moon during this period Vital energy is also increasing.

Day of week influence (±)

Day of the week - Friday, this day is under the auspices of Venus - a mysterious, enigmatic and bright planet. Since ancient times it has been considered women's day. On this day, girls and women were supposed to rest and not burden themselves with any activities.

Since Venus patronizes grace and beauty, creating a feeling of peace in a person, Friday is the best time to take stock working week and free yourself from everything unnecessary. The best thing is to prepare for the week ahead. And in no way try to complete all the work before the end of the working day.

The Great Patriotic War began, which lasted 1418 days and nights.

At 03:30-04:00, thousands of German guns opened fire on Soviet border outposts, headquarters, fortifications, and communications centers. At the same time, 900 dive bombers and 200 fighters invaded Soviet airspace. The following cities were bombed by aviation: Riga, Vindava, Libau, Siauliai, Kaunas, Vilnius, Grodno, Lida, Volkovysk, Brest, Kobrin, Slonim, Baranovichi, Bobruisk, Zhitomir, Kyiv, Sevastopol and many other cities and towns. Colonel General Vasily Popov (at that time the commander of the Brest-Litovsk 28th Rifle Corps of the Western Special Military District) would later write: “The attack was completely unexpected for the troops, since there were no warnings.”

Commander of the Air Force of the Western Front, Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General of Aviation Ivan Kopec, having learned at 03:00 from the latest intelligence reports that a military attack would be carried out in a matter of minutes, he ordered all aircraft to be scrambled into the air and reported this to Moscow. From there came a threatening shout (apparently it was Timoshenko): “Give up immediately, otherwise this will provoke Germany into war, and you will respond with your head.” Kopets was forced to obey, gave the all clear, the planes landed at the airfields, and literally at that time a Luftwaffe armada appeared in the sky. The losses were terrible. General Kopec could not withstand this blow and shot himself.

An air surveillance post located near the Khersones lighthouse detected 4 German planes flying to Sevastopol at 03:07. Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Admiral Philip Oktyabrsky called Zhukov in Moscow and asked for instructions. After talking with Tymoshenko, Zhukov gave permission to meet the planes with fire. The post gave an alarm signal, and the anti-aircraft guns of the Black Sea Fleet repelled the raid, destroying 3 German aircraft. The attempt to destroy the ships failed, but several bombs fell on Sevastopol.

03:45–04:00 – People’s Commissar of Defense Semyon Timoshenko called the Western Special Military District for the 4th time: “Comrade Stalin does not allow artillery fire on the Germans.”

Deputy district commander Ivan Boldin shouted: “How can this be? After all, our troops are forced to retreat. Cities are burning, people are dying,” and insisted on the immediate introduction of mechanized, rifle units and artillery.

Timoshenko ordered: “No measures should be taken except for reconnaissance 60 kilometers deep into enemy territory.”

From the first minutes of the war, the heroic defense began Brest Fortress , which officially continued until July 20, 1941 (local residents claimed that they heard shooting coming from the fortress until the beginning of August). The organizers and leaders of the defense (about 3.5 thousand people - military, border guards, women, children) were captain Ivan Zubachev, regimental commissar Efim Fomin, major Pyotr Gavrilov, lieutenants Andrei Kizhevatov, A.E. Potapov and others. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1957 was awarded to P.M. Gavrilov and posthumously to A.M. Kizhevatov. The Germans took several hours to capture the fortress, but its garrison pinned down an entire enemy division for at least a month. The Germans fired at the fortress, bombed it from the air, and used flamethrowers. And the Motherland didn’t even know that Brest was still fighting even when the Germans had long since taken Minsk and approached Smolensk. Some managed to break through and go to the partisans; The 300 surviving defenders were captured. Only thanks to the writer Sergei Smirnov, who restored the names of several hundred victims, were the stigmas of “missing” and “traitor to the motherland” removed from the defenders of the fortress. Smirnov petitioned for the rehabilitation of the surviving heroes. In Khrushchev's times a photograph appeared in newspapers: two crying men, press their foreheads to each other.

Belorussian state museum history of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk. The opening took place on November 7, 1944. The bullet-ridden tunic of Lieutenant A.F. Naganova. Killed during the defense of the Brest Fortress.

Two of the fortress' defenders met for the first time since the war; They couldn’t meet before - they were in camps as “traitors to the motherland.”

At 05:00–06:00, German troops crossed the state border of the USSR and went on the offensive in three directions: southeast of Tilsit, east of Suwalki and in the Brest region and south of Vladimir-Volynsk. The widespread belief that the defeat of our troops occurred on the first day of the war is a legend. First blow German troops Only 30 divisions of the first echelon of cover from the Baltic to the Carpathians out of 237 divisions of the western border districts and the second strategic echelon were subjected. The tragedy of the defeat of the main forces of 3 special military districts (118 divisions) did not occur on June 22, but later, during the oncoming battles of June 24–30, 1941 between the new and old borders.

On June 22, border battles of Soviet covering troops and border troops began in the territory of Southern Latvia, Lithuania, Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, which lasted until June 29. There were 170 divisions and 2 brigades in the border military districts.

Troops Northwestern Front by the end of the day they had moved away from the state border to the east, in some places up to 50 km. The advanced units of the enemy advanced to the river. Dubissa (35 km northwest of Kaunas), crossed the river. Neman is 60 km south of Kaunas. The troops of the Western Front began to retreat into the interior of the country.

At 09:30, the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “On the mobilization of those liable for military service in the Leningrad, Baltic special, Western special, Kiev special, Odessa, Kharkov, Oryol, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Ural, Siberian, Volga, North Caucasian and Transcaucasian military districts” was adopted. (in 14 military districts out of 17). Those liable for military service born in 1905–1918, inclusive, were subject to general mobilization (those liable for military service born in 1919–22 were already serving in the army). In the three remaining districts - Transbaikal, Central Asia and the Far East - mobilization was announced a month later by a special government decision in a secret way as “large training camps.”

From the first minutes the defense of the naval base in Liepaja began. It was here that the Soviet Union received its baptism of fire. Marines. On June 27, having blown up the destroyer "Lenin" and 5 submarines, destroying military facilities, the defenders of Liepaja on transports and submarines left the base.

The 636th anti-tank regiment (B.N. Prokudin) of the 9th anti-tank artillery brigade southwest of Siauliai destroyed 59 German tanks and assault guns during the day of battle. On June 24, another 20 vehicles were destroyed. The gunner of the 8th battery, A. Serov, destroyed 18 enemy tanks and assault guns.

66 Soviet airfields (26 in ZapOVO) were subjected to a sudden attack. During the day, 1,136 Soviet aircraft were destroyed (738 in ZapOVO), including 800 on the ground. On the first day of the war Soviet pilots 16 air rams were carried out. The first aerial ramming during the Great Patriotic War was carried out by the commander of the 124th fighter aviation regiment Ensign D.V. Kokorev(04.15), while destroying the German Dornier 215 aircraft. At 04.25 an air ram was carried out by a pilot I.I. Ivanov. At 05.15 the pilot rammed the enemy L.G. Butelin, at 10 o'clock - P.S. Ryabtsev, lieutenant of the 123rd fighter regiment.

June 23, 1941

99th Infantry Division Colonel N.I.Dementyev together with the border guards, she drove the Nazis out of Przemysl and held the city until June 27.

June 24, 1941

The Soviet counterattack began in the Grodno area with the forces of a formed cavalry-mechanized group (KMG) under the command of the deputy front commander, Lieutenant General I.V. Boldin. The combat-ready 6th Mechanized Corps (more than 1,000 tanks) of Major General M. G. Khatskilevich and the 6th Cavalry Corps were involved in the counterattack, but German air supremacy, bad organization strike, an attack on a prepared anti-tank position and the destruction of the rear led to the fact that German troops managed to stop the troops of KMG Boldin.

June 25, 1941

The 100th Division stood in the way of a German tank mechanized wedge, which rushed towards Minsk. Her commander Major General Ivan Russiyanov recalled: “Our division was well trained, had combat experience in the Finnish campaign... However, we immediately faced difficulties... how to beat the tanks? In the first days of the war there were no incendiary bottles or anti-tank grenades. If you served before the war, then you probably remember that in some of our units there were glass flasks in a case... We began to fill them with gasoline, and plugged a tow wick into the neck. This “structure” had to be set on fire with a match before being thrown onto the engine part of the tank... In just 3 days, from June 26 to 28, we burned more than 100 tanks.”

On the third day of the war, an anti-tank battery, in which a 22-year-old sergeant served as gun commander Ivan Mikhailovich Panfilenok, met a Wehrmacht tank corps near the town of Zaturtsi near the city of Lutsk. Four guns against 300 tanks.

The battle began at 14.10. After 20 minutes, 30 tanks were burning on the battlefield, but three of the four guns were destroyed along with their crews. There was only one weapon left - Sergeant Panfilenok. The gunner was seriously wounded, the loader was killed, and the carrier sent for the shells did not return. Ivan was left alone against the tank group.

The sergeant fought for about another hour! Slipping on spent cartridges, again and again he deployed the five-hundred-kilogram cannon, pointed it at another tank and set it on fire. The sight was torn off by a shell fragment - he began to aim through the gun barrel. A 28-centimeter long shell fragment hit my right side; I tore it out with my fingers, without feeling the wound in the heat of battle.

At approximately 15.20 the tanks turned around and began to retreat, leaving the gun's kill zone. In that battle, the gun of Sergeant Ivan Mikhailovich Panfilenok destroyed 17 tanks, 11 of which he personally knocked out. Then the Nazis lost 43 tanks - almost 15% of their military equipment.

Ivan Mikhailovich Panfilenok learned that the tanks could not get through in his sector already in the hospital from brigade commander Moskalenko, who personally came to visit the hero. The advance of the tank armada was delayed for more than a day.

The Military Council of the 5th Army nominated Ivan Mikhailovich Panfelenok to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Award commission Southwestern Front approved the proposal, but in Moscow it was left completely unanswered. All participants in the battle were awarded, the brigade became Red Banner, even General Moskalenko was awarded the Order of Lenin, but the sergeant himself was not noted in any way. Only a year later, after a personal appeal from General Moskalenko to Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, Ivan Mikhailovich Panfilenok was awarded the order Red Banner. Until his death (1985), already a marshal, Kirill Semenovich Moskalenko sent letters to various authorities, but never achieved anything. Ivan Mikhailovich Panfilenok died in 1998.

June 26, 1941

Parts Border Troops The NKVD and the Red Army, with the support of the 4th Black Sea detachment of border courts and the Danube flotilla, crossed the Danube and entered the territory of the Kingdom of Romania.

Killed 33-year-old pilot, commander of a bomber squadron, captain Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello

(1908–1941). He took part in the battles on the Khalkhin Gol River and the Soviet-Finnish War (1939-40). On the fourth day of the war, a flight under the command of Captain N.F. Gastello, consisting of two DB-3f heavy bombers, flew out on a combat mission. The second plane was flown by Senior Lieutenant Fyodor Vorobyov, with Lieutenant Anatoly Rybas flying with him as a navigator (the names of two more members of Vorobyov’s crew have not been preserved).

During an attack on a concentration of German equipment, Gastello's plane was shot down. According to the reports of Vorobyov and Rybas, Gastello’s burning plane rammed a mechanized column of enemy equipment. Along with the commander, the bomber's crew members, lieutenants A.A. Burdenyuk, G.N. Skorobogatiy and senior sergeant A.A. Kalinin, also died.

At night, peasants from the nearby village of Dekshnyany removed the corpses of the pilots from the plane and, wrapping the bodies in parachutes, buried them near the crash site of the bomber.

Pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Gastello.

The very next day after the presentation, Captain Gastello Nikolai Frantsevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). By order of the USSR Minister of Defense, Captain Gastello N.F. was forever included in the lists of one of the aviation regiments.

Gastello's "Fire Ram" became one of the most famous examples of heroism in the history of the Great Patriotic War and was used for military-patriotic propaganda and education of youth, both during the war and in post-war period. For a long time it was believed that Gastello's crew was the first to accomplish such a feat. However, as it will become known later, already on the first day of the war, the flight commander of the 62nd air regiment, senior lieutenant P.S. Chirkin, threw his flaming “seagull” into a cluster of enemy tanks.

June 27, 1941

The Leningrad City Party Committee and the Military Council of the Northern Front were the first in the country to adopt a resolution on the formation of the people's militia. Thus, at the P.F. Lesgaft Institute in the first days of the war, partisan detachments consisting of 268 people were formed to operate behind enemy lines. Then similar decisions were made in Moscow and other cities that were under threat. Hundreds of thousands of citizens, mostly women, dug trenches; At enterprises, institutions, and universities, there was a registration of volunteer fighters who were not fit for health or age to serve in the army. According to post-war estimates, at least 2 million people signed up to volunteer. Several divisions were formed in Moscow and Leningrad, which were then sent to the front to close the gaps made by the enemy. The fate of the militia divisions, staffed by elderly or very young fighters, almost untrained and poorly armed (near Moscow there was one rifle for 10 militiamen; when they asked for weapons, they were told: get them in battle) is another tragic page of the war. Official figures There were, of course, no losses in the militia divisions, but we can say with confidence that at least one and a half million militia members died.

June 29, 1941

The Battle of Dubno-Lutsk-Brody, one of the largest tank battles in history, which took place during the Great Patriotic War in June 1941, ended. Also known as the Battle of Brody, the tank battle of Dubno-Lutsk-Rivne. About 3,200 tanks took part in the battle on both sides.

The shock formations of the Southwestern Front were unable to carry out a unified offensive. The actions of the mechanized corps were reduced to isolated counterattacks in different directions. The result of the counterattacks was a week's delay in the advance of the 1st Tank Group and the disruption of the enemy's plans to break through to Kyiv and encircle the 6th, 12th and 26th armies of the Southwestern Front in the Lvov salient. The German command, through competent leadership, was able to repel a counterattack and defeat the armies of the Southwestern Front.

As a result, the Soviet mechanized corps, which suffered heavy losses in the battles, began to be withdrawn from the battle by order of M. P. Kirponos. Part of the 8th Mechanized Corps was surrounded in the Dubno area. By the end of June 29, the Germans broke through to Lvov, and Soviet troops were forced to leave the city.

Deputy Squadron Leader, 128th Bombardment Regiment, First Lieutenant I.Z.Preisen repeated the feat of Nikolai Gastello, sending his burning bomber into a large enemy tank column.

In an air battle over Lake Pskov, senior lieutenant of the 158th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Northern Front Mikhail Petrovich Zhukov, having exhausted all its ammunition, shot down an enemy bomber with a ramming attack and managed to land at its airfield. Zhukov will die in an air battle on January 12, 1943, having managed to become one of the first three Heroes of the Soviet Union for the Great Patriotic War.

The first victory at the front was won by senior lieutenant Pyotr Afanasyevich Pokryshev(1914–1967). He fought on the Northern and Leningrad fronts. By July 1943, the commander of the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 275th Fighter Aviation Division, 13th air army Leningrad Front Major P.A. Pokryshev made 282 combat missions, conducted 50 air battles, shot down 22 personally and 7 enemy aircraft in the group. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 24, 1943, the combat pilot was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time.

June 30, 1941

German troops broke into Lviv on June 30. The very first days of their rule in the captured city were marked by bloody orgies and unheard-of abuse of the civilian population. From materials Nuremberg trials it is known that even before the capture of Lvov, the Gestapo had drawn up German government lists the most prominent representatives intelligentsia scheduled for destruction. To carry out terror, the fascist command used a special battalion under code name"Nachtigall" ("Nightingale"), part of the Brandenburg regiment. This regiment was intended for sabotage operations on the territory of the USSR and reprisals against the “rebellious”.

Service chemical protection. Moscow, June 1941.

In the Daugavpils area, a burning torpedo bomber DB-3f from the 1st air squadron of the 1st mine-torpedo aviation regiment of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet Air Force (crew - junior lieutenant Igashov Petr Vasilievich(commander), lieutenant Dmitry Georgievich Parfenov, Ensign Alexander Mitrofanovich Khokhlachev, Red Navy man Vladimir Leonidovich Novikov) rammed a Bf-109F, after which it rammed an enemy motorized column trying to cross the Western Dvina. Pyotr Igashov was captured alive by the Germans and shot.

] June 24
During June 24, the enemy continued to develop an offensive in the SIAULIAI, KAUNASS, GRODNO-VOLKOVYSK, KOBRINSK, VLADIMIR-VOLYNSK and BROD directions, encountering stubborn resistance from the Red Army troops.
All enemy attacks in the SIAULAI direction were repulsed with heavy losses. Counterstrikes by our mechanized formations in this direction destroyed enemy tank units and completely destroyed a motorized regiment.
Fierce battles are taking place in the GRODNO-VOLKOVYSK and BRESTSK-PINSK directions for GRODNO, KOBRIN, VILNO, KAUNAS.
In the Brodsky direction, stubborn battles of large tank formations continue, during which the enemy was severely defeated.
Our aviation, successfully assisting ground troops on the battlefield, inflicted a number of crushing blows on enemy airfields and important military installations. In air battles, our aircraft shot down 34 aircraft.
In the Gulf of Finland by ships Navy One enemy submarine was sunk.
In response to the double raid on Sevastopol by German bombers from the territory of Romania, Soviet bombers bombed Constanta and Sulin three times. Constanta is burning.
In response to the double raid of German bombers on Kyiv, Minsk, Libau and Riga, Soviet bombers bombed Danzig, Konigsberg, Lublin, Warsaw three times and caused great destruction of military installations. Oil depots in Warsaw are on fire.
For the 22nd, 23rd and 24th June Soviet aviation lost 374 aircraft, shot down mainly at airfields. During the same period, Soviet aviation shot down 161 German aircraft in air battles. In addition, according to approximate data, at least 220 aircraft were destroyed at enemy airfields.
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The Germans lower 5-10 paratroopers-saboteurs in the uniform of Soviet policemen to damage communications. In the rear of our armies, fighter battalions have been created to destroy paratrooper saboteurs. The leadership of the destroyer battalions is entrusted to the NKVD.
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Finland placed its territory at the disposal of German troops and German aviation. For 10 days now, German troops and German aviation have been concentrating in areas adjacent to the borders of the USSR. On June 23, 6 German planes taking off from Finnish territory tried to bomb the Kronstadt area. The planes were driven away. One plane was shot down and four German officers were captured.
On June 24, 4 German planes tried to bomb the Kandalaksha area, and in the Kuolajärvi area some units of German troops tried to cross the border. The planes were driven away. Parts of the German troops were repulsed. There are captured German soldiers.
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Romania placed its territory entirely at the disposal of German troops. From Romanian territory not only German air raids are carried out on Soviet cities and troops, but also performances by German and Romanian troops operating jointly against Soviet troops. Repeated attempts by Romanian-German troops to capture Chernivtsi and the eastern bank of the Prut ended in failure. German and Romanian prisoners were captured.* June 25
On June 25, enemy mobile units developed an offensive in the VILNE and BARANOVICHY directions.
Large formations of Soviet aviation conducted a successful fight against enemy tanks in these directions throughout the day. During the battle, individual tank groups managed to break through to the VILNO-OSHMYANY area.
Due to stubborn resistance and active actions of our ground forces, enemy infantry formations in these directions were cut off from their tank units.
The enemy's attempts to break through in the BRODSKY and LVOVSKY directions are met with strong opposition from the counterattacking troops of the Red Army, supported by powerful strikes from our aviation. As a result of the battles, enemy mechanized formations suffer heavy losses. The fight continues.
With a swift counterattack, our troops again captured Przemysl.
In the CHERNOVITSI direction, our troops repulsed major attacks by the enemy who were trying to cross the PRUT River.
On the BESSARAB sector of the front, Red Army troops firmly hold positions on the eastern bank of the river. Prut, successfully repelling numerous enemy attempts to force it. In the SKULENI area, the enemy, during his attempt to advance, was inflicted a significant defeat; its remains are thrown over the river. ROD. German and Romanian prisoners were captured.
Our aircraft carried out a number of crushing blows on German airfields in Finland, and also bombed Memel, enemy ships north of Libau and the oil town of the port of Constanta.
In air battles and anti-aircraft artillery fire on June 25, 76 enemy aircraft were shot down; 17 of our aircraft did not return to their bases.
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A German pilot, captured after his plane was shot down by our aircraft on the Soviet-Finnish border, said: “We don’t want to fight with the Russians, we fight under duress. I'm tired of the war; We don’t know what we’re fighting for.”
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On one section of the front, German troops went into battle drunk and suffered heavy losses in killed and wounded. Captured German soldiers said: “Just before the battle they give us vodka.”
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On the first day of fighting, the young anti-aircraft gunners of the N unit still hesitantly fired at enemy aircraft. The next day, these fighters already acted in cold blood, shot accurately and shot down 9 German bombers that day.
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Our pilots of the N aviation unit shot down 10 enemy aircraft in air battles. The regiment commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, Major Korobkov, shot down two enemy bombers; Radio operator-gunner Shishkovich, during a combat mission, shot down two enemy aircraft of the Messerschmitt system. Commander Sorokin, while performing a combat mission with nine aircraft, was attacked by 15 enemy aircraft, shot down 6 aircraft in the battle and lost four. Major Yachmenev, being wounded in both legs, refused to go to the hospital and continued to carry out combat missions.
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The pilots of the N air unit (Stanislav area) shot down 19 enemy aircraft: two aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft artillery - crews of junior commanders Kovalev and Milakhov. Four German pilots were captured by the fighters of these crews. A total of 12 German pilots were captured.
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The pilots of the N-sky air regiment fought heroically, destroying 13 enemy aircraft, losing one.
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Red Army soldier N-sky rifle regiment Romanov, sneaking up on an enemy reconnaissance motorcyclist, destroyed him. The commander of the unit of the same regiment, junior lieutenant Mezuev, being wounded three times, did not leave the battlefield and continued to fight.
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The driver of the construction battalion of the N military formation detained four German pilots who jumped out of a downed plane and tried to escape.
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The commander of one of the machine-gun companies, being surrounded for more than 8 hours and constantly fighting with the enemy, fought off the blocking groups and restored contact with the pillboxes several times. Despite the enemy's superiority, the commander of the machine gun company held his position until reinforcements arrived.
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Junior Sergeant Trofimov, the gun commander, in a situation where the gun was surrounded by the enemy and the gun’s combat crew was out of action, took three wounded soldiers of his gun into cover, and then he himself calmly shot the enemy with direct fire. When resistance became useless (the enemy tanks were almost in a firing position), Trofimov blew up the gun, and he skillfully escaped from the encirclement of the enemies.
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The commander of the N battalion, Captain Koshel, skillfully organized a machine-gun fire system during the battle. He calmly allowed the enemy to close range and took him under cross-fire from machine guns. Two enemy companies were destroyed.
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There are many facts that peasants provide active assistance to Red Army units in catching enemy paratroopers and saboteurs. Thus, in the Herts region, peasants were caught and taken to military unit three paratroopers-saboteurs thrown from the plane. June 26
During June 26, in the Minsk direction, our troops fought with infiltrated enemy tank units.
The fighting continues.
In the LUTSK direction, large and fierce tank battles are taking place throughout the day, with a clear advantage on the side of our troops.
In the CHERNOVITSI direction, our troops successfully repulse the enemy’s attempts to cross the river. ROD.
On the BESSARAB sector of the front, our troops firmly hold the state border, repelling attacks by German-Romanian troops.
The enemy, who tried to advance at SKULENI, was thrown back with heavy losses. west bank R. ROD.
Our aircraft bombed BUCHAREST, PLOIESTI and CONSTANTA during the day. Oil refineries in the Ploiesti region are on fire.
On the Soviet-Finnish border there is combat
There were no further clashes between ground forces on June 26.
In the Baltic Sea, due to the actions of our aviation and light naval forces, two enemy submarines were sunk.
During June 26, enemy aviation did not show much activity. Enemy fighters offered little resistance to our bombers.
Data on the number of destroyed enemy aircraft and our losses is being clarified.
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Romanian prisoners say that in each Romanian regiment there are 40 German soldiers and officers, because German command doesn't trust Romanian soldiers.
As a rule, German artillery is located in the rear of the Romanian troops.
The Germans force the Romanians to fight by force, since the Romanian soldiers are opposed to the war and the Germans.
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Military facilities in the mountains. Iasi (Romania) aerial bombardment carried out by our planes caused great destruction.
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The commander of the artillery unit, Comrade. Manziy, a participant in the battles with the Finnish White Guards, skillfully helped our infantry to repel the enemy’s attempt to cross the Prut River near N. By organizing careful observation and accurately establishing the most vulnerable spot enemy, comrade Manzius opened a sudden and devastating fire at the very moment when the enemy began to cross. The artillerymen destroyed three enemy crossings in this battle and knocked out six guns. The enemy did not set foot on Soviet soil here.
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On one of the sections of the Soviet border, a small group of our scouts across the Prut River raided enemy territory. Brave fighters captured and brought 10 enemy soldiers, captured a light machine gun and 8 rifles. All scouts returned safely to their unit's location.
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In some sectors of the front in Belarus, the appearance of separate enemy groups in the form of Red Army soldiers has been established. Thanks to the vigilance of our units, this deception of the insidious enemy was promptly exposed and groups of saboteurs were destroyed or captured.
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In the territory Soviet Belarus The enemy, for the purpose of espionage, landed several small groups of paratroopers (4-6 people each) with radio stations. These parachutists have been caught local residents and handed over to the military authorities.
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Any attempt to land paratroopers is met with the most energetic resistance. So, for example, when landing an enemy airborne assault in the town of N (Ukraine) standing nearby cavalry unit The Red Army immediately attacked and destroyed the entire landing force the moment it landed.
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In the Kulei area, the N-Rifle Regiment was surrounded by superior enemy forces. The command, through skillful and energetic actions, made a hole in the enemy’s ring and brought the entire regiment out of encirclement, preserving its material and manpower.
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The German soldier Alfred Liskoff, who did not want to fight against the Soviet people, came over to our side.
Alfred Liskof appealed to German soldiers to overthrow Hitler's regime. 27th of June
During the day, our troops in the SIAULIAI, VILNE and BARANOVYCHY directions continued to retreat to positions prepared for defense, stopping for battle at intermediate lines.
The combat operations of our troops in these directions were of the nature of fierce clashes. In certain directions and sectors, our units launched counterattacks, inflicting a great defeat on the enemy.
In the LUTSK and LVOV directions, the day of June 27 passed in stubborn and intense battles. The enemy in these directions brought large tank formations into battle in an attempt to break through our position, but by the actions of our troops all the enemy’s attempts to break through were stopped with heavy losses for him. A significant number of prisoners and trophies were taken in the battles.
In the MINSK direction, the offensive of large enemy tank units was repulsed.
As a result of a counterattack by our troops in this direction, a large enemy headquarters was destroyed. A German general is killed and operational documents are captured. In another sector of the same direction, our units destroyed up to 40 enemy tanks.
On the BESSARAB sector of the front, our units struck the enemy in the SKULENI area, disrupting the preparations for a major offensive in this direction.
On the night of June 27, a group of our troops, with the support of a river flotilla, crossed the DANUBE and captured advantageous points, 510 prisoners (including 2 officers), 11 guns and a lot of equipment.
Along the entire section of the front from Przemysl to the BLACK SEA, our troops firmly hold the state border.
* * *
In battles with the German invaders, commanders, soldiers, entire units and units of the Red Army showed exceptional heroism, resourcefulness and courage.
N rifle regiment with a swift blow knocked out the Germans from the town of N, taking 22 people prisoner. The enemy retreated, leaving over 700 killed and wounded on the battlefield.
* * *
In battles on the Romanian border, units of the N Infantry Division captured 800 Germans and Romanians.
* * *
Our Black Sea Fleet, together with aviation, attacked the base German ships in Constanta.
* * *
The company, commanded by Lieutenant Shvets, acted selflessly.
In the N area, this company attacked an enemy twice as strong and forced him to retreat with heavy losses.
* * *
In the anti-aircraft artillery unit, commanded by Colonel Turbin, Lieutenant Muravyov’s battery especially distinguished itself. This battery, one after another, shot down two enemy Junkers-88 aircraft and captured five German pilots, including two lieutenants.
* * *
At dawn on June 25, a German battalion, dressed in Red Army uniform, tried to invade Soviet territory. Our company, under the command of Lieutenant Zhigov, defending the village of N, met the enemy with heavy fire. But the fascists began shouting in Russian: “Don’t shoot: we are our own!” The fighters weakened the fire and were quickly surrounded by enemies. Then the machine-gun platoon, commanded by junior lieutenant Pushkarenko, made its way through with grenades, and then covered the counterattack of the rifle units with powerful fire from its machine guns. As a result, the company successfully escaped from the trap set by the enemy, inflicting serious damage on the Germans.
* * *
Finnish President Ryti, speaking on the radio on June 26, repeated Hitler’s slander: he stated that “during negotiations in Berlin in November 1940, the USSR demanded free hands from Germany in order to settle its scores with Finland and liquidate this country.”
This blatant lie aims to deceive the people of Finland and set them against the Soviet Union.
The rulers of Finland are trying to hide from the Finnish people the transformation of Finland into a springboard for the German fascists to attack the USSR.
* * *
The Italian press is trying to mislead the world public opinion with its messages that “Russia has aggressive intentions against Bulgaria and other Balkan countries"; In fact, the whole world knows that: 1) the Bulgarian and Russian peoples are connected by bonds of historical friendship for many decades; 2) The USSR took all possible measures to protect Bulgaria from the war into which Hitler was and is involving it; 3) The USSR has never had and does not have any aggressive intentions towards other Balkan countries.
At the same time, everyone knows that Germany trampled on the state independence and national independence of the Balkan states, and fascist Italy enslaved Greece and most of Yugoslavia.
* * *
It was announced in Budapest that Hungary considered itself to be at war with the Soviet Union. This decision was caused by the fact that Soviet aviation allegedly carried out raids on Hungarian cities. This statement is false: Soviet aviation did not carry out any raids on Hungarian cities. The Hungarian government is afraid to say honestly and openly that it declared a state of war on the orders of Hitler and also because the Hungarian rulers are not averse to plundering other people's property on occasion.
* * *
The well-known Italian newspaper Messagero is disseminating, for clearly provocative purposes, the message that “the Russians are preparing for a chemical war.” The purpose of this provocation is clear to anyone who is more or less familiar with the usual techniques of the German-Italian fascists. It is possible that they themselves are preparing a chemical war and, trying to confuse the cards in advance, play the wrong game. June 28
During June 28, our troops, retreating to new positions, fought stubborn rearguard battles, inflicting a great defeat on the enemy.
In the battles in the SIAULAI direction, our troops captured many prisoners, a significant number of whom were intoxicated.
In the MINSK direction, Red Army troops continue to successfully fight enemy tanks, countering their advance to the east.
According to updated data, in the battles of June 27 in this direction, up to 300 tanks were destroyed 39 tank corps enemy.
During the day, a large tank battle unfolded in the LUTSK direction, in which up to 4,000 tanks participated on both sides. Tank battle continues.
In the area of LVOV there are stubborn, intense battles with the enemy, during which our troops inflict a significant defeat on him.
Our aviation conducted successful air battles and supported ground forces with powerful air strikes. During the raid on the Tulchi area, our aircraft destroyed 2 enemy monitors on the river. Danube.

* * *
Seven enemy bombers in close formation were approaching our border city. They rushed towards them soviet fighters. Junior Lieutenant Yakovlev's car suddenly dived down, and then crashed into the formation of enemy bombers from below and forced them to open up. The German planes, pursued by our fighters, began to run away without dropping their bombs. In this battle, two enemy aircraft were shot down.
* * *
Several enemy companies surrounded the N border outpost. With well-aimed fire, the border guards repulsed five attacks one after another, and then, under the command of junior lieutenant Kolotov, launched a counterattack. The enemy could not withstand the bold bayonet strike and rushed back to Romanian territory.
* * *
Red Army soldier Gerasimovich discovered a large group of German soldiers trying to cross the Prut River. He entered into an unequal battle and, skillfully changing his firing position, drove off the enemy. 15 soldiers were destroyed by well-aimed fire from the brave Red Army soldier.
The pilots of the N air unit show outstanding courage and skill in battles for the Motherland. Gunner-radio operator Comrade. Beloval, having received 4 wounds, continued to fight and successfully repelled enemy fighters. Gunner-radio operator Smirnov shot down two planes, gunner-radio operator Volkov - one plane. Senior political instructor Dogadin, whose car was seriously damaged, brought the plane safely to his airfield.
* * *
In the Kallol area, a group of Finnish soldiers crossed our border and declared: “we surrender to the Red Army, because we do not want to fight against the Soviet Union.”
* * *
The rifle squad, commanded by Comrade. Vashuk, conducting reconnaissance, encountered two enemy platoons. An unequal battle ensued, as a result of which Comrade. Vashuk and his fighters forced the Germans to retreat with heavy losses. The wounded Red Army soldiers Oreshenko and Gorshkov refused to leave the battlefield.
* * *
The car of driver Skidin, who was delivering shells to the front, was fired upon by a German plane. The trailer with the shells caught fire and threatened to explode. Red Army soldier Skidin, risking his life, extinguished the fire and delivered the valuable cargo to its destination.
* * *
Peasants Western regions Ukraine and Belarus have been highly vigilant since the first day of the war.
Not far from the village of N, peasants detained two suspicious people. These were scouts for a gang of German saboteurs numbering 50 people hiding in the surrounding area. The fighter battalion to combat paratrooper-saboteurs and the peasants of the surrounding villages rushed to search and soon discovered the entire group of saboteurs in the thick of the forest. 32 saboteurs were killed, the rest were captured.
* * *
After Hitler's false fabrication about the USSR's imaginary claims to the Bosporus and Dardanelles was exposed, German radio began intensively disseminating equally false allegations that the USSR allegedly resorted to various threats against Iran. It is hardly necessary to specifically refute this new provocation of German propaganda. The USSR had and still has friendly feelings towards Iran and the Iranian people.
* * *
On June 25, four German pilots landed near Kyiv on a Junkers 88 dive bomber: non-commissioned officer Hans Hermann, a native of the city of Breslau in Central Silesia; observation pilot Hans Kratz, a native of Frankfurt am Main; senior corporal Adolf Appel, a native of Brno in Moravia, and radio operator Wilhelm Schmidt, a native of Regensburg. All of them made up the crew that was part of the second group of the 54th squadron. Not wanting to fight against the Soviet people, the pilots first dropped bombs on the Dnieper, and then landed near the city, where they surrendered to the local peasants. The pilots wrote an appeal “To to German pilots and soldiers,” in which they say: “Brothers, pilots and soldiers, follow our example. Abandon Hitler’s killer and come here to Russia.”
* * *
Recently, in the countries occupied by Germany, patriots have significantly intensified their struggle against the enslavers. For example, on June 26 and 27, explosions occurred again at military warehouses owned by the Germans in Holland. In Greece, there is also great activity of Greek patriots against the occupiers. An explosion occurred in Piraeus, killing several dozen Germans. This folk struggle against the occupiers in countries enslaved by the Germans, accelerates the collapse of German fascism.
* * *
Despite the bloody cruelty shown by the German occupiers to the population of Yugoslavia, the struggle against the Germans continues in the country. Inside the country, in the mountainous areas, there are a large number of armed detachments that wage partisan warfare against the Germans. The peasants support these troops and supply them with food. In this guerrilla war, the Serbs achieve great success. June 29
Afternoon message for June 29, 1941
The offensive of the enemy's forward echelon tank units in the MINSK and SLUTSK directions was stopped by the actions of our troops. Enemy tank units suffer heavy losses.
In the MINSK and BARANOVICHY directions there are fierce battles with enemy infantry formations that are trying to connect with the forward echelon of tanks.
With stubborn resistance and counterattacks in these directions, our troops delay the advance of the main enemy forces, inflicting a great defeat on them.
Major tank battles continue in the LUTSK direction, during which our aviation delivered a number of crushing blows to enemy tanks. The results of the battle are being clarified.
Along the entire length of the Soviet-Finnish state border, the enemy carried out intensified ground reconnaissance, accompanied by artillery fire. All attempts by enemy scouts to penetrate our territory were repulsed.
In other sectors of the front, our troops firmly hold the state border.
According to additional data, on June 27, an enemy submarine was sunk in the Gulf of Riga.
* * *
Our combat pilots bravely fight the enemy, constantly remembering mutual assistance and assistance in battle. Order-bearing pilot Captain Geibo, rescuing a comrade, entered into battle with two fascist planes, covered his comrade’s exit from the battle and forced the enemy to retreat. At the head of a small group of fighters, he attacked 18 German bombers and put them to flight. Returning after a successful bombing German tanks Order-bearing captain Tikhy was attacked by enemy fighters and fired upon by anti-aircraft guns. The plane was badly damaged and the radio operator was seriously wounded. A neighbor came to the rescue and boldly rushed towards the enemy. The radio operator gunner destroyed two fascist Messerschmitts with well-aimed fire.
* * *
The N cavalry division is fighting heroically. Its fame resounds throughout the entire front. In a sudden attack, large German forces captured the border village of P. It was early in the morning. At four o'clock in the evening a cavalry regiment approached the village. The battle began on the outskirts of the village. Having broken the resistance, the red cavalrymen burst into the streets of the village. A fierce fight ensued. The Germans retreated, suffering heavy losses.
* * *
Junior Sergeant Belsky and Red Army soldier Ivanov went on reconnaissance to the location of the fascist regiment. They were surrounded by two enemy platoons under the command of an officer. The brave scouts were not at a loss. Having killed an officer and several soldiers with well-aimed shots, the scouts broke through the encirclement and disappeared into the forest. An hour later they delivered information to headquarters about the location and strength of the enemy.
* * *
A German Yu-88 aircraft of the 1st flight of the 1st group of the 54th squadron flew over to our side. The flight mechanic of this aircraft, Corporal Paul Hoffbauer, in his address to the pilots and soldiers of the German army deceived by Hitler, says: “Brothers! Turn your bayonets against Hitler and fascism. Go to Soviet Russia. I am now in Soviet Russia and I see that captured Germans are treated well, humanely, and humanely. Pilots! Don't throw bombs on peaceful Russian cities. Fly on your planes to Soviet Russia and, together with all cultured people, help destroy bloody fascism.”
* * *
During interrogations, many captured German soldiers say that they were removed from garrisons located in the occupied regions of France and put on trains without telling them where they were being sent. Only when they encountered the Red Army soldiers did they realize that a war with the Soviet Union had begun. Prisoners of war report that they were driven into battle under the threat of being shot in the back with machine guns.
* * *
In Holland, sympathy for to the Soviet people and sympathy for his patriotic war against German fascism. Many Dutch say: “The Russians held out in the face of the great Mongol invasion; Russians defeated the great conqueror, the Swedish king Charles XII; they drove Napoleon out. The Russian people, with their inherent strength and courage, will destroy any invaders.”
Evening message for June 29, 1941.
On June 29, Finnish-German troops went on the offensive along the entire front from the Barents Sea to the Gulf of Finland, trying to break through our fortifications along the state border. Repeated attacks by Finnish-German troops were repulsed by our troops. As a result of the fighting during the day, the enemy, leaving hundreds of dead at a number of points and pursued by our artillery fire, retreated to their fortifications.
In the VILNA-DVINA direction, attempts by enemy mobile units to influence the flanks and rear of our troops, who were retreating to new positions as a result of battles in the SIAULIAI, KEYDANY, PONEVEZH, KAUNAS area, were not successful. Vigorous counterattacks by our troops caused significant damage to enemy mobile units, as in personnel, and especially in the material part.
In the MINSK direction, thanks to the efforts of our ground troops and aviation, the further advance of the enemy’s motorized mechanized units that had broken through was stopped. The enemy's motorized mechanized units, cut off by our troops from their bases and infantry, being under continuous fire from our aviation, were placed in exclusively difficult situation. Our infantry covering units departing from the state border are conducting fierce battles and holding back the advance of enemy motorized and infantry troops on the LIDA-VOLKOVYSK line.
In the LUTSK direction, the battle of large mechanized masses continues. Despite the introduction of fresh tank units by the enemy in this direction, all his attempts to break through in the NOVOGRAD-VOLYNSKY and SHEPETOVSKY directions were repulsed; a series of consistent and continuous blows from our tank troops and aviation, most of the enemy's tank and motorized forces were destroyed.
According to the prisoners, one tank division The enemy was completely destroyed in the battle near Lida.
Our aviation conducted successful air battles with enemy aircraft, continuously bombarded its tank units and motorized infantry that had broken through, and supported our troops with powerful air strikes, especially in the Lutsk direction.
* * *
Hitler and his generals, accustomed to easy victories throughout the Second Imperialist War, report on the radio that in seven days of war they captured or destroyed more than 2,000 Soviet tanks, 600 guns, destroyed more than 4,000 Soviet aircraft and captured more than 40,000 Red Army soldiers; Moreover, during the same period, the Germans allegedly lost only 150 aircraft, and how many tanks, guns and prisoners they lost - German radio is silent about this.
We even feel embarrassed to refute this obvious lie and boastful nonsense.
In fact, the situation is painted in a completely different light. The Germans concentrated more than 170 divisions on the Soviet border; of these, at least a third represent tank and motorized divisions. Taking advantage of the fact that Soviet troops were not brought to the borders, the Germans, without declaring war, thievishly attacked our border units, and on the first day of the war, the vaunted German troops fought against our border guards, who had neither tanks nor artillery. By the end of the first day of the war and the entire second day of the war, only the advanced units of our regular troops had the opportunity to take part in the battles, and only on the third, and in some places on the fourth day of the war, did our regular troops manage to come into contact with the enemy. It was precisely because of this that the Germans managed to occupy Bialystok, Grodno, Brest, Vilno, and Kaunas.
The Germans pursued the goal of disrupting the deployment of our troops in a few days and occupying Kyiv and SMOLENSK with a lightning strike within a week. However, as can be seen from the course of events, the Germans failed to achieve their goal: our troops still managed to turn around, and the so-called lightning strike on Kyiv and SMOLENSK was thwarted.
As a result of persistent and fierce battles, over a period of 7-8 days, the Germans lost at least 2,500 tanks, about 1,500 aircraft, and more than 30,000 prisoners. During the same period, we lost: 850 aircraft, up to 900 tanks, up to 15,000 missing and captured.
This is the picture of the actual situation at the front that we with good reason contrasted with the boastful messages of German radio.
The results of the first 8 days of the war allow us to make the following conclusions: the lightning victory that the German command was counting on failed; interaction German fronts torn off; the offensive spirit of the German army has been undermined; and Soviet troops, despite their late deployment, continue to defend Soviet soil, inflicting cruel and debilitating blows on the enemy.* [

Russian campaign. Chronicle of military operations on the Eastern Front. 1941–1942 Halder Franz

June 27, 1941

Army Group South. Von Kleist's troops managed not only to repel all enemy attacks on the southern flank of the tank group, but also to advance further to the southeast with their right flank. The front has shifted slightly to the east. The group advancing in three divisions has enough strength to be able to expect further successful advance from it.

The Russian forces thrown against our southern flank are obviously hastily put together formations. Kleist's group was apparently attacked from the front by the Zhytomyr group, while the Chernivtsi tank group was operating against the southern flank. From the region of Southern Bessarabia to the north-west, a few days ago the transfer by rail of another Tiraspol tank group began, which will soon probably be thrown against the right flank of von Kleist’s troops as the enemy’s last reserve. After this, our troops will crush everything that the Russian command in Ukraine (which, to its credit, is acting correctly) can oppose Army Group South. In this way we will be able to strike to the south with the aim of forcing the enemy, still holding defenses around Lvov and on the Hungarian border, to accept battle with an inverted front. This will probably happen by the time the Romanian shock army will be ready to march towards our troops.

On the front of Army Group Center everything is developing as expected. The enemy group in Bialystok is moving further and further to the east. The troops of the western sector of our front are slowly pursuing it. In the Novogrudok area, the pressure of the enemy troops accumulated here on the right flank of the Gotha group is becoming more and more noticeable, which necessitates a maneuver to the south by part of the forces of the V Corps (9th Army). This is all the more justified since enemy troops were also identified north of the river Neman. The 5th Division of the V Corps, allocated for this maneuver, would be replaced by the 161st Division. VI Corps' front moves much further south from Vilna, so its place will be taken by the 900th Brigade with the task of covering the gradually widening gap with Army Group North.

Army Group North continues to move towards Dvinsk with strong mobile groups, while Reinhardt's tank corps advances towards Jekabpils. The left wing of the infantry corps advances on Riga. Thus, everything is going according to plan. The penetration of our troops in the Dvinsk region caused severe panic among the enemy troops. It seems that his powerful groups are hastily retreating from the Western Dvina to the east.

So, in general, the situation on the front of Army Groups “South” and “Center” can be called satisfactory, with the caveat that the time has come to rush the 2nd Tank Group to Minsk. On the front of Army Group North, events are developing more than satisfactorily.

At the morning meeting, the Commander-in-Chief spoke irritably about the fact that some maneuvers in the army group zones were not being carried out as decided at yesterday's meeting of the Commander-in-Chief with the commanders of Army Groups South and Center. This is a natural result of the intervention of army group and army commanders in the actions of subordinate troops. Here in the rear we do not have a complete and detailed picture of what is happening, so we have to limit ourselves to staging common tasks and not try to direct the actions of individual corps and even divisions. At the front, under the pressure of the situation, the state of the roads, etc., events take a completely different turn than planned, and as a result, a false impression is created that OKH orders are being ignored.

Command ground forces recommended that the air reconnaissance assets at its disposal concentrate their efforts on the strategic triangle Orsha - Vitebsk - Smolensk. The goal is to find out whether a new operational group is being formed between Minsk and Moscow at the expense of troops retreating from the areas of Minsk and Polotsk. The enemy may have such an intention, but his ability to carry out these plans seems insufficient to me.

Colonel Ochsner.

a) Report on the effectiveness of the use of rocket artillery during the assault on Brest-Litovsk. The results appear to be very satisfactory.

b) Analysis of the potential possibilities of waging bacteriological warfare against England (the use of foot-and-mouth disease bacteria on our side and rinderpest on England’s side).

12.45. General Khimer (on the phone). Hungary announced on the radio that it was at war with Russia. At the same time, the Hungarian General Staff knows nothing about this.

Two days ago political authorities Hungary sent a request to the German Foreign Ministry asking whether Hungary’s participation in the war is necessary. A response to this request has not been received to this day. It is unlikely that the Hungarian government, without a clear answer from the German side, will be able to, on its own initiative, in response to an appeal from the OKW and OKH, enter the war. The Hungarian General Staff concentrated a mobile corps (two motorized and one cavalry brigade) in the Marmaros-Szeged area. The corps is ready for use on the right flank of the Hungarian Carpathian Front. I told Chimera that it was impossible to advance through the Carpathians with mobile troops alone. To accomplish this task it is necessary to strike on the entire front. In this case, it would be desirable for us that the Hungarian troops advance in the direction of Kolomyia - Stanislav. I ordered Chimer to discuss this with Laszlo.

14.00. Keitel (OKW) on the phone. The Fuhrer ordered Gepner's tank group to attack Dvinsk with all its might. The possibility of crossing in the Jekabpils area is doubtful.

As soon as the opportunity arises, the road to Jekabpils should be opened by a raid by the army corps along north shore(Western Dvina).

Gepner's mobile troops, which are concentrated to strike Dvinsk, must be thrown to Ostrov as soon as possible, striking from the eastern bank of the Western Dvina. Thus, the flank towards Jekabpils will be protected, which will not allow Russian troops to break through from the Baltic states to the area south of Lake Peipsi.

14.20. Conversation on this topic by phone with the commander-in-chief (who is located at the headquarters of Army Group North). He told me that only the 36th Motorized Division was advancing on Jekabpils, while the main part of the mobile forces of the Gepner group was aimed at Dvinsk.

Evening reports report that the Russian defenses in front of the front of Army Group South are beginning to crumble. The enemy is clearly trying to withdraw his forces in the offensive zone of the 17th Army. Therefore, even in the afternoon, the commander of Army Group South ordered the 17th Army to immediately go on the offensive and organize the pursuit of the retreating enemy. Zolochev was identified as the main direction of pursuit for the 17th Army.

The command of the 1st Panzer Group gave the order to penetrate the enemy’s defenses beyond the Goryn River, without paying attention to the safety of its own flanks and rear.

In front of the front of Army Group Center further development operations are carried out according to plan. Enemy troops left Bialystok. Thus, the western section of the encirclement ring narrows. The enemy is trying to fight to break through to the northeast and southeast in the direction of Novogrudok and Ruzhany. Despite the fact that in some areas such attempts led to an aggravation of the situation, in general they were unsuccessful.

Army Group North strengthens and expands the bridgehead in the Dvinsk region, while simultaneously continuing to put pressure on the enemy on the Western Dvina with the forces of the 16th and 18th armies.

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