Zhytomyr

Our country experience the same every day.

Right now, at this moment, every night for three weeks now, various Ukrainian cities, Odessa and Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Sumy, Zhytomyr and Lviv, Mariupol and Dnipro, Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people.

A

key request that President Zelensky has brought up repeatedly is for American support to close the skies over Ukraine.

They did, however, hit electrical substations, transformers and transmission lines across four Ukrainian regions, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without power.

Describing the intensity of the Russian assault as extremely high, President Zelenskyy confirmed that energy infrastructure was targeted across the Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Chelmenitsky regions.

Then on Sunday, a Russian strike on a school dormitory in Vinnytsia Oblast killed two people, including a 13-year-old girl.

This comes from the state emergency service.

Out of the, [chuckles] out of the original Jewish population of 100,000, only 30,000 remained when the Germans took the city.

In Zhytomyr, out of 50,000 Jews, no less than 44,000 left.

In the summer 1946 issue of the bulletin Hayasa, Hayasa, E.M. Kulisher wrote, quote, "There is no doubt that the Soviet authorities took special measures to evacuate the Jewish population or to facilitate its unassisted flight.

Along with the state personnel and industrial workers, Jews were given priority in the evacuation.

Oh, okay.

The ring road around Zhytomyr, a lot of road works.

It took a while, but for me,

the road is much better.

first...

Holy cow.

They had just pushed the Russians north of Zhytomyr.

Destroyed cars.

And as the 13th and 7th Army Corps are falling back, taking losses, unable to establish a coherent defense, uh, fourth Panzer Army and von Manstein and Army Group South realized, okay, the primary objective for the core, it's stabilized in Fastov and Bladzirkovna.

It's to plunge into the left flank or the southern flank of these westward moving Soviet forces, taking advantage of that paved Kiev-Zhytomyr highway, uh, to plunge into that Soviet flank, give the seventh and 13th Army Corps a reprieve, uh, and uh save fourth panzer army's front line essentially advancing to kiev it was briefly discussed um but given the advance of the soviets um well to the to the northwest of fast off and belat cirkov um it was deemed it wasn't even really discussed going to kiev at at a certain point especially after 10 to 11 november The overall intent as it developed in this period was for 40th Panzer Corps to plunge into that Soviet flank and just restore 4th Panzer Army's front line at that point.

Now, how did the operation go at first, and then how did the Germans' plan evolve as the events unfolded?

Of course.

Again, these two divisions, as I really emphasize in the book, We're better rested than Das Reich and 25th Panzer Division, more experienced than 25th Panzer Division in particular, and more well-equipped.

So as these forces arrive in the rear area, begin assembling near the front line, gathering strength.

in that 12th to 14th period, Hoth and von Manstein as well, and Eberbach, still in command of 48th Panzer Corps at this point, decide to shift the Schwerpunkt, the point of main effort of the 48th Panzer Corps, westward, not eastward or northeastward towards Kiev, westward towards Zhytomyr, again, to plunge into that Soviet flank.

And they begin...