It is now 3 hours 30 minutes on August 17, and you have still not deigned to send the Stavka a report on the results of the operation for August 16 and your assessment of the situation. I long ago obligated you, as the Stavka's representative, to send special reports to the Stavka at the close of each day of operations. You have almost every time forgotten this duty of yours and have not sent reports to the Stavka.

August 16 was the first day of an important operation on the South-Western Front, where you serve as the Stavka's representative. And again you have deigned to forget your duty to the Stavka and are not sending reports.

You cannot plead a lack of time, since Marshal Zhukov works at the front no less than you and yet sends reports to the Stavka every day. The difference between you and Zhukov is that he is disciplined and does not lack a sense of duty to the Stavka, whereas you are insufficiently disciplined and frequently forget your duty to the Stavka.

I warn you for the last time that if you permit yourself even once to forget your duty to the Stavka, you will be removed from the post of Chief of the General Staff and recalled from the front.