On Tuesday, June 6, a torrent of water erupted through a large hole in the Dnipro River dam separating Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in southern Ukraine, flooding the conflict area and driving residents from their homes.
The Nova Kakhovka Dam
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor and the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine receive water from the Nova Kakhovka dam. One of the significant geographical characteristics of southern Ukraine is this massive reservoir behind it, which is up to 23 km (14 miles) broad and 240 km (150 miles) long. The floodplain below contains a large portion of the Ukrainian landscape.
The dam’s collapse prompts a new humanitarian catastrophe in the middle of the conflict zone. It changes the front lines just as Ukraine launches a long-awaited counteroffensive to expel Russian forces.
Ukraine charged Russia with intentionally committing a war crime by blowing up the dam from the inside. Some Russian-installed authorities blamed Ukrainian bombardment, while others said the dam had broken on its own.
Evacuation Process
Oleksandr Prokudin, the governor of the Kherson area, estimated that 16,000 people were residing in the “critical zone” on the river’s right bank under Ukrainian authority. According to him, residents of the areas upstream of Kherson City were being evacuated. He said they would be transported by bus to the city, then by trains to Mykolaiv and other Ukrainian towns, including Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi, and Kyiv.
The Dnipro islands downstream of Nova Kakhovka and a large portion of the Russian-controlled left bank in southern Kherson are the most at risk of flooding.
As per The Guardian, the port, the docklands, and an island south of the city are expected to be flooded, contrary to earlier calculations of such a catastrophe that showed Kherson City would not bear the brunt of the water. It is still being determined how many individuals will lose their houses.
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