Dnieper River, it used to be called. And according to the narrator, Russian sources are saying that the bridgehead is expanding; i.e., Ukraine has broken through. And the Kerch Bridge continues to get whittled down.
Significant, no matter how flippant you care to be, as you refuse to discuss the substance of the news or listen to the video. Putin’s having a bad week.
The name varies slightly in the local Slavic languages of the three countries through which it flows:
Belarusian: Дняпро, romanized: Dnyapro, [dⁿʲaˈprɔ], or Днепр Dnyepr,[11] [ˈdⁿʲɛpr]
Russian: Днепр, tr. Dnepr, IPA: [ˈdⁿʲepr]; formerly spelled Днѣпръ[12]
Ukrainian: Дніпро, romanized: Dnipro, IPA: [ɟⁿʲiˈprɔ] (listen); poetic Дніпр, Dnipr; formerly Дніпер[13] Dniper, [ˈɟⁿʲiper], or older Днѣпръ[citation needed] (Dnipr, [ˈdⁿ⁽ʲ⁾ipr][citation needed])
These names are all cognate, deriving from Old East Slavic Дънѣпръ (Dŭněprŭ). The origin of this name is disputed but generally derived from either Sarmatian *Dānu Apara (”Farther River”) in parallel with the Dniester (”Nearer River”) or from Scythian *Dānu Apr (”Deep River”) in reference to its lack of fords,[14][15] from which was also derived the Late Antique name of the river, Danapris (Δαναπρις).[16]
- from the wiki, which is very good.
Dneiper is the transliteration usually used in western Europe. Note that in Slavic languages the “D” is normally silent - “neper” “nipro”.
Other relevant languages -
Greek - Δνείπερος
Dneíperos
Romanian - nipru
Hope is a beautiful thing. Until it’s not.
Yawn.
Puttin’s puppets here are already celebrating the reestablishment of the USSR.