The flooded farmland and town of Demydiv, near Kyiv, Ukraine. — ©️2023 The New York Times Company
CLAMBERING over boulders, past old tyres and shellfish-encrusted scrap metal, Oleksandr Shkalikov ventured onto the dry bed of a vast reservoir.
Out in this wasteland rested a haunting reminder of long-ago battles on this same swath of southern Ukraine: a swastika, chipped into a rock, had emerged from the receding water. The year “1942’’ was written next to it.
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History repeating itself
Lidiya Pechenizka, 92, at home in the small village of Staryi Saltiv, Kharkiv region. Pechenizka has lived in Staryi Saltiv her entire life; war has come to the village again. — Photos: ©️2023 The New York Times Company
Kateryna Rotarenko, right, and two demining engineers search for human remains in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson region.
Kateryna Rotarenko, right, and two demining engineers search for human remains in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson region, Ukraine, on July 1, 2023. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
A World War II-era grenade in the Dnipro River was revealed when the waters receded after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, in the Zaporizhzhia Region.
Kateryna Rotarenko examines a soldier’s uniform near a bunker at an abandoned military position in a forest in Velyka Oleksandrivka. Kherson region.
A Ukrainian soldier atop an abandoned Russian tank in the Siversky Donets River, in Bilohorivka, Ukraine, on May 24, 2022. — Filepic
Oleksandr Shkalikov, a Ukrainian tank driver, scrambles over the surreal landscape revealed after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed.
A bunker built on the main road in the small village of Staryi Saltiv, Kharkiv region. — Photos: ©️2023 The New York Times Company
