Liveblogging World War II: May 30, 1942

Second Battle of Kharkov - :

Soviet attacks to break out of the encirclement cease. Fewer than one man in ten managed to break out of the "Barvenkovo mousetrap". Beevor puts Soviet losses in terms of prisoners as 240,000[6] (with the bulk of their armour), while Glantz citing Krivosheev gives a total of 277,190 overall Soviet casualties.] Both agree on a low German casualty count, 20,000 dead, wounded and missing.