The steppe front was the reserve front of the headquarters, it was intended to be brought into battle in the event of the success of our counteroffensive on the kursk salient. But stalin, alarmed by the situation south of kursk, handed over to vatutin from the steppe front two armies, the fifth guards of general zhadov and the fifth tank of general rotmistrov. The comrade commander of the fifth panzer army received the task of destroying the enemy grouping that had penetrated the line of deployment west of prokhorovka. The enemy is already in prokhorovka immediately, deploying the army, i obey comrade commander. There has come a turn in the battle of kursk in the east i will not forget about my duty. Hold on at all costs, ill prepare an order. We have nothing to say to our soldiers, general hold on hold on, but the german troops were unable to hold back the powerful counteroffensive of the soviet armies. The greatest in the second world war, the tank battle near prokhorovka decided the