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Kakhovka dam destruction: why is Ukraine calling it ‘ecocide’?

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The Flooding of the Dineepro

Both sites have been using landmines extensively. The left bank of the Dineepro is the southern side of it, which has been under Russian occupation. Even there, you've still seen a lot of current minefields, which have been flooded. These mines are no longer in marked minefields, so areas where the Ukrainian military may have maps of where these minefields are. Instead you have mines mixed in with a sediment deposited by the flood downstream.

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