Author: Carlotta Gall and Nicole Tung

Defense and Military Forces Dnipro River (Ukraine)Drones (Pilotless Planes)Kakhovka Dam (Ukraine)Reservoirs Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022)Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine)

August 27, 2026 Carlotta Gall and Nicole Tung

Where Drones Cannot See, the Ukraine War Is a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse

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.