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Dozens of Nazi-era warships, deliberately sunk in the Danube in 1944 to stop them falling into Red Army hands, have resurfaced near Prahovo in eastern Serbia as a summer drought pushes the river to some of its lowest levels on record, Euronews reported.
Around 200 ships, barges and tugboats may still lie on the riverbed in a roughly five-kilometre bottleneck near Prahovo, obstructing navigation, and some of the wrecks may still contain live ammunition. With EU support, Serbia has begun raising the wrecks and clearing the waterway; salvage work led by the European Investment Bank started in 2024 and is expected to run until 2028.
It is not the first time low water has forced the issue. Persistent drought has repeatedly cut Danube water levels over the past several years, disrupting grain shipments and forcing Serbia and its neighbours into repeated dredging operations to keep the river navigable - a recurring seasonal stress on one of Central and Eastern Europe's most important trade corridors that this year's heatwave has made acute enough to expose seven-decade-old wreckage.
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