News of the successful German counterattack at Tarnopol comes to Petrograd.
Beginning the next day, the right-wing “patriotic” press printed everything it
could find out about the attack, including the designations and positions of
the Russian units involved – a serious breach of military secrecy. Not
satisfied with this, the press began to exaggerate the disaster, the better to
shift the blame from the Provisional Government to the Bolsheviks.
On July 20 – July
7, the summer offensive on the Western Front began, too late to save the
Southwestern Front. On July 21 – July 8, the summer offensive on the Northern
Front began, without changing that result. That same day, General Kornilov,
commander of the Southwestern Front, gave orders to fire at retreating troops.
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