{"id":30734,"date":"2025-03-06T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30734"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:20:31","slug":"dnipro-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dnipro-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Dnipro River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dnipro River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Russia is launching repeated &#8220;suicidal&#8221; assaults to cross the Dnipro River in Kherson, despite heavy casualties, as part of a strategy to seize more territory before potential peace talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Dnipro River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Dnipro <strong>(Dnieper)<\/strong> River is one of the major <strong>transboundary rivers of Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the<strong> fourth-longest river in Europe<\/strong> (after the Volga, the Danube, and the Ural).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Located in Eastern Europe, the Dnieper River and its many tributaries <strong>drain much of Belarus and Ukraine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Historically, the river was an important barrier <strong>dividing Ukraine into right and left banks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>originates <\/strong>in <strong>Russia<\/strong>, in the l<strong>ow Valday Hills west of Moscow.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It runs a total length of<strong> 1,368 miles<\/strong> through <strong>western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine <\/strong>before <strong>emptying into the Black Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Approximately 300 miles of the waterway is located in Russia, 430 miles are in Belarus, and 680 miles are within Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Dnipro is a typical river of the plains, sloping gently and flowing slowly. The water level varies considerably, and the riverbed is unstable.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Dnipro <strong>Basin covers 504,000 sq.km<\/strong>, of which <strong>289,000 sq.km. are within Ukraine (48 percent of its area).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It passes through numerous <strong>urban centers<\/strong> such as the <strong>Russian cities of Smolensk <\/strong>and <strong>Dorogobuzh<\/strong>, as well as <strong>Mogilev in Belarus and Kiev, Cherkasy, Dnipro, <\/strong>and Zaporizhia <strong>in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an important navigable waterway for the economy of Ukraine and is <strong>connected by the Dnieper\u2013Bug Canal to other waterways in Europe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: It has as many as 32,000 tributaries, including the S<strong>ozh, Desna, Trubizh, Bilozerka, Drut, Berezina, and Prypiat <\/strong>Rivers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dnipro River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which country is the Dnieper River in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Dnieper River flows through Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What capital city is on the Dnieper River?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The capital city of Ukraine, Kyiv (also spelled Kiev), is located on the Dnieper River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which is the longest river in Europe?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Volga River is the longest river in Europe, stretching about 3,530 kilometers (2,194 miles).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/videos\/international\/russia-makes-rapid-advances-near-nato-territory-putins-deadly-fighters-storm-dnipro-river-areas\/videoshow\/118707214.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dnipro River, Europe&#8217;s fourth-longest river, flows through Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, playing a vital role in history, ecology, and regional economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}