MOSCOW--Russian shock forces have captured the big railroad junction of Kastornaya 80 miles east of Kursk, a special communique said today, and the front dispatches reported that mutiny had broken out among the last of the German troops trapped at Stalingrad.
The right wing of Col. Philip Golikov's army of the Voronezh front yesterday crushed German resistance at Kastornaya after a determined assault, the High Command announced. Its fall laid open the railway line westward to Kursk, key bastion 125 miles north of Kharkov.
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