Kamianske

But a missile or artillery strike on a tainted building or dump could disperse radioactive dust over the nearby city of Kamianske.

Around the village of Kamianske, where only a small number of residents remain, Ukrainian and Russian troops exchange artillery fire day and night.

Braving Russian shelling, three women walked for several hours from their homes on the front line in the southern Ukrainian village of Kamianske on a recent morning to collect supplies from a humanitarian drop-off point in the village of Stepnohirsk, about five miles away.

The front line has changed little since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when Kyiv’s forces stopped the Russian advance by blowing up a bridge in Kamianske.

In addition, there has been heavy fighting, and some claims of incremental Ukrainian advances, along an arc of more than 150 miles, from Bakhmut, to the northeast, to near the city of Kamianske, on the Dnipro, in the Zaporizhzhia region to the west.