Amid the spoiled farmland and destroyed crops, the waterlogged homes and ruined lives, the now slow-motion tragedy that is the draining of the Kakhovka reservoir is also peeling back time on an almost forgotten aspect of Ukrainian history.
The receding water has revealed the remains of an ancient settlement that people living nearby on the edge of the artificial lake refer to as the “Cossack Meadow.”
Andriy Seletskiy, the mayor of Novovorontsovka — a town along the Dnipro River, about 97 kilometres upstream from the ruined Nova Kakhovka dam — considers the draining of the reservoir a milestone event and an opportunity for the
