After the flooding of the Dnieper delta, soldiers must start from scratch in an unrecognisable landscape. Wendell23 reports for 1843 magazine
and causing toxic oil leaks. “The landscape has changed,” a fisherman told me. “Where there were docks, there are now beaches. Where we used to catch fish in the reeds, there are piles of sand.”
The four men on this team traversed the river in a dinghy at midnight, carrying all the supplies they needed. The crossing takes around ten minutes. During this time, the team are at their most vulnerable. On the first morning of his mission, Beaver looked out over the desolation the flood had wrought. He showed me a video clip on his phone: warped wooden houses silted up to their windowsills, torn corrugated-metal roofing, half-buried wooden steps, tree branches, flotsam and debris strewn over a mudscape.
The banks of the mighty Dnieper lie out of bounds. The streets leading down the hill towards it are exposed to Russian positions on the other side. Here, as it reaches the Black Sea, the river forms a delta, carved with channels and rivulets, and fans out several kilometres wide. Sand-bar islands are clustered with dachas and surrounded by marshland.
Before the flood, the Ukrainians had slowly been driving the Russians off the islands. Beaver fought in Donbas in eastern Ukraine before the full-scale invasion in 2022 and was awarded a medal for his leadership in the fight for the Dnieper delta. But he could tell the Russians were learning from their adversaries how to drop grenades from drones and jam signals, as well as devising methods of their own.
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