Four Distressing Years in the Russian-Occupied Area of Jerson

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In the north of Crimea, in the thin tongue of Dzhankoi land separating the peninsula from the mainland, several lines of abandoned Russian fortifications evoke the moment when the Ukrainian army reversed the course of the war. The grass is rocking today among endless rows of dragon teeth, trenches and bunkers built by the Russians in a hurry at the end of 2022, when Kiev forces regained most of the territory conquered by the Kremlin and expelled…