Recent Examples on the WebBut later, around the third week of March, the Russians landed paratroops on the Ukrainian side of the river near Moshchun, according to Vdovychenko, the commander of the 72nd Brigade. Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022 No British attempt was made to land men simultaneously on the south bank of the Rhine, nearest the Allied lines, and the paratroops failed in their own attempts to cross the bridge under fire. Max Hastings, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020