The Red Army pressed the Germans to the Baltic Sea

On February 28, 1945, the Red Army troops continued to encircle the East Prussian enemy group. According to the Izvestia newspaper, in Pomerania, the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts under the command of Marshals Konstantin Rokossovsky and Alexander Vasilevsky occupied more than 50 settlements on February 28, 1945, pinning the Germans to the Baltic Sea.

"In honor of the 2nd Belorussian Front in A fireworks display was held in Moscow," the the message of the edition dated February 28, 1945.

There were exactly 70 days left until the Great Victory.

In turn, the power engineers of Donbass, as Izvestia also writes, have won a new victory. On February 28, concrete work was completed at the permanent dam of the Shterovskaya GRES. The German occupiers, realizing the significance of the dam, blew up the concrete abutments and pylons to the ground, destroyed the metal structures of the shields and gates.

Immediately after the liberation of Shterovskaya GRES power engineering The restoration of the dam's reservoir, as well as reinforced concrete and metal structures, has begun in Donbas.

The material was published as part of the Izvestia special project "80 days to Victory".

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