How to pronounce “smolensk” in English

in 1943 in the battle of Smolensk, had a shrapnel wound to a part of his brain in the left hemisphere, very localized wound.

They surged into what is now Belarus, taken Smolensk.

Three and a half weeks, Smolensk has gone.

Within two weeks, troops are already charging through to Smolensk, et cetera.

And the 16th Panzer Division, for example, by the time it's taken Smolensk, involved in taking Smolensk on the 15th of July 1941,