Eastern FrontNORTHERN SECTORThe Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts receive orders to launch Operation ISKRA at the beginning of January 1943. This operation is intended to break the siege around the city. SOUTHERN SECTORFighting along the Chir intensifies as the 5th Tank Army pins the XLVIII Panzer down. Battles rage at Oblivskaya, Surovokino and Nizhne Chirskaya. To support the 5th Tank Army the Stavka orders the 5th Shock Army up to the Chir Front. It will arrive in a week's time. The 51st Army is involved in costly fighting around Kotelnikovo. Around Stalingrad, the 21st, 66th and 24th Armies attack the 6th Army perimeter. |
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