{"id":16947,"date":"2026-10-03T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16947"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:36:12","slug":"dnieper-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dnieper-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Dnipro River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dnipro River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russian drone strikes damaged key bridges across the Dnipro River in Kyiv recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dnipro River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dnipro (<\/span><b>Dnieper<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) River is one of the <\/span><b>major transboundary rivers of Europe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>fourth-longest river in Europe <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(after the Volga, the Danube, and the Ural).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Located in<\/span><b> Eastern Europe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Dnipro River and its many tributaries drain much of Belarus and Ukraine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>longest river in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historically, the river was an important barrier <\/span><b>dividing Ukraine into right and left banks.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <\/span><b>Russia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in the low Valday Hills, 240 km west of Moscow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows in a generally southerly direction through <\/span><b>western Russia, Belarus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Ukraine to the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-black-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sea<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>mouth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, called<\/span><b> Dnieper Liman,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a <\/span><b>swampy delta<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a long inlet of the Black Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It runs a <\/span><b>total length<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>1,368 miles.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Approximately 300 miles of the waterway is located in Russia, 430 miles are in Belarus, and<\/span><b> 680 miles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are<\/span><b> within Ukraine.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It passes through numerous <\/span><b>urban centers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as the<\/span><b> Russian cities of Smolensk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Dorogobuzh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as <\/span><b>Mogilev in Belarus <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> Kiev, Cherkasy, Dnipro, and Zaporizhia in Ukraine.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a typical river of the plains, sloping gently and flowing slowly. The water level varies considerably, and the riverbed is unstable.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an important <\/span><b>navigable waterway for the economy of Ukraine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is <\/span><b>connected by the Dnieper\u2013Bug Canal to other waterways in Europe.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Tributaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It has as many as 32,000 tributaries, including the<\/span><b> Sozh, Desna, Trubizh, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bilozerka, Drut, Berezina, and Prypiat Rivers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/international\/russian-airstrikes-target-bridges-across-dnipro-river-in-kyiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>OUT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dnipro River is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe. 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