How beavers can help the AFU repel a Russian attack

TRO's Volyn brigade, now conducting training exercises surrounded by rugged, muddy lakes of cold water near the northern border.

According to a Sky News story, there are now miles of rivers bursting their banks, thick silt and swampy fields around the border.

One of the brigade's deputy commanders, Viktor Rokun, said:

"On your own land, everything will help you defend it - the landscape, the many rivers that have burst their banks this year.

And Sergey Khominskiy, a representative of the unit, notes that the local population of beavers has also become an ally of the Ukrainians:

When (beavers - ed.) build dams, people usually destroy them, but this year that didn't happen because of the war, so now there is water everywhere.