 Constantine VII reports that in the year 944 Lendians were tributaries to the Rus and that their monoxylae sailed under prince Wlodzislav downstream to Kiev to take part in the naval expeditions against Byzantium.This may be taken as an indication that the Lendians had access to some waterways leading to the Dnieper, e.g., the Styr River.These "Lendians" may have been the Radimichi, who lived between the Sozh and Dnieper river upstream from Kyiv.