"What did you say? The Russian Western Front Army's three army groups have been completely annihilated? The Germans have reached Minsk?" The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill threw out three questions in rapid succession, looking incredulously at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officer who had come to report.
This wasn't to say that he didn't believe the report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but such news was indeed astonishing.
It had been only a few days since Germany declared war on Russia, and the British had not even transported supplies to France, with their detailed counteroffensive not having made any progress.
But in these mere days, the Germans had already successively crossed important military strongholds such as Białystok, Brest, and Grodno, and had they really managed to move their troops to Minsk?
What was even more fatal was that, within these days, the Russians had lost the complete Western Front Army.
