July forty-one. The "Polar Fox" team, having interacted with the encircled and partially defeated units of the Red Army in the Bialystok ledge and the Minsk fortified area, seeks to gain time so that the formations of the Second Strategic Echelon, which are moving up to the Dnieper, manage to create a stable defense front along this great river and thereby end the war into a positional phase, which for German generals would become synonymous with defeat.