KALANCHAK, Ukraine — A makeshift dam of sand and clay, covered with patches of grass, blocks one of Europe’s great canals. Beyond it, swans drift in the trickle of water that remains. A duck slides into a wall of reeds below the bare, concrete banks.
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This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian presidential press service on April 27, 2021 shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and a serviceman looking from a dug-out during his visit to the Ukrainian army's outposts in the Kherson region, on the administrative border with Russia-annexed Crimea.
