Pinsk
Americannoun
noun
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In December 1943, German forces dropped leaflets around Soviet partisans in the Pinsk marshes bordering Belarus and Ukraine, urging “partisan Ivan” to return to his family and farm.
From Slate ● May 3, 2022
After crossing into Belarus near the southwestern city of Pinsk last August, Mr. Neumann, 49, formally applied for asylum, according to state media.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
Viasna said the searches Monday targeted civil society activists and human rights defenders in the cities of Brest and Pinsk in western Belarus.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
That shining ribbon of water, lined with its proud white cliffs, is for us what the impassable Pinsk Marshes are for that other, peripheral European, Russia.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019
Three railroads leading out of the fortress were still in the hands of the Russians—to Bialystok to the north, to Pinsk and Minsk to the east, and to Kovel and Kovno to the south.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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