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Russian troops are trying to infiltrate the vast, overgrown reservoir basin of a dam they blew up three years ago as Ukrainian soldiers hunt them at close quarters. Ukrainian soldiers of the Bratstvo battalion unloading equipment after making their way out of the Kakhovka reservoir basin in July. Carlotta Gall, Kamila Hrabchuk and Nicole Tung reported from the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding area in southeastern Ukraine for several days this summer. Soldiers describe it as a dense jungle, suffocatingly hot and infested with mosquitoes, where you cannot see the enemy, or your own buddy, just three yards away. It used to be one of Ukraine’s largest reservoirs, a wide body of water swelling the lower reaches of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine.
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This inhospitable terrain is now a front line between the Russian and Ukrainian Armies, where drones cannot penetrate the cover of the tall weeds and soldiers hunt each other on foot in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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Russian troops are trying to infiltrate the vast, overgrown reservoir basin of a dam they blew up three years ago as Ukrainian soldiers hunt them at close quarters. Ukrainian soldiers of the Bratstvo battalion unloading equipment after making their way out of the Kakhovka reservoir basin in July. Carlotta Gall, Kamila Hrabchuk and Nicole Tung reported from the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding area in southeastern Ukraine for several days this summer. Soldiers describe it as a dense jungle, suffocatingly hot and infested with mosquitoes, where you cannot see the enemy, or your own buddy, just three yards away. It used to be one of Ukraine’s largest reservoirs, a wide body of water swelling the lower reaches of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine.
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