Kakhovka dam destruction: why is Ukraine calling it ‘ecocide’?
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The Impact of the Dam Collapse on the Ukrainian and Russian-Occupied Ukraine
Russian-occupied Zaparisha nuclear power plant uses water from reservoir to fill its cooling ponds. Dam collapse crosses both the Ukrainian and Russian held territory. There are estimates that there might be maybe a thousand square kilometres of lake bed exposed once the water level drops. Historically you've got a huge amount of industrial pollution in this lake, which pell back in sediments behind these dams.
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