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And the next sector to the south:

And the southernmost sector:

Here's what the north half of the front lines looks like:

Here's the south half of the front lines:

One of the noteworthy things that happened this turn was that the mop-up of Minsk was completed:

There was a massive cross-river assault near Odessa:

Kiev looks like to be the next target after Odessa:

My careful calculations reveal to me that I destroyed some 25 Soviet units during turn 7: 21 inf types and 4 AA/AT guns. Here's the Axis losses so far:

Curt has moved his aircraft to the forward areas and we're getting into furballs. This air report is before I started moving units at the beginning of turn 8 and is undoubtedly inaccurate but does reflect that we're starting the air war in earnest.

There was a lot of Soviet interdiction going on as I moved my units, brave airmen those Soviet airmen. Here's the end-of-turn air briefing report showing that I shot down more than a few of his interdictors. When I'm acting as the Soviet in an FITE contest I usually leave my air power safely in the environs of Moscow until the Axis gets close to Kiev and or Leningrad and I noticed that Curt has flown a lot of fighters etc. into the surburbs of Leningrad.

Here's the moves minimovie showing the moves from turns 4 though 8:

Here comes some close-up movies starting at the north sector: [ if it weren't for the excellent Soviet arty suppport the Finns and Germans would have succeded in pushing further south and east. ]

Here's a shot showing the Axis forces pushing northeast from the Riga area:

Here's a close-up of a Panzer cross-river assault:

This shot is further south showing some more Panzer cross-river assaults to the east of Minsk:

This shot shows security forces clearing out the Pripet Marshes:

Axis forces have arrived at the surburbs of Kiev and are pushing to the southeast as well.

German Panzers have arrived at Odessa. Romanian forces are still clearing the riverbanks of Soviet units. There's a battle just to the northwest of Odessa as the Germans and Romanians are trying to open a supply line toward Odessa.

Here's the north half of the front lines all put together:

Here's the south half of the front lines at the end of turn 8: