 Following boastful reports made by Soviet radio that Soviet troops had entered the city, when in fact it was still held by XI Army Corps, Joseph Stalin personally ordered its immediate capture.The German supply situation in Kharkov was now catastrophic; artillerymen, after firing their last rounds, were abandoning their guns to fight as infantry.The army's supply depot had five trainloads of spare tank tracks left over from "Zitadelle" but very little else.