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Dam sabotage creates Ukraine’s worst environmental disaster ‘since Chernobyl’

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Local residents look at a partially flooded area of Kherson following damage sustained at the Kakhovka dam | Photo by STRINGER/Getty Images

Dam sabotage creates Ukraine’s worst environmental disaster ‘since Chernobyl’

Destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam threatens tens of thousands of people, the country’s energy grid and the environment.

BY GABRIEL GAVIN AND VERONIKA MELKOZEROVA, POLITICO

KYIV — Worries about a massive environmental disaster in Ukraine have long focused on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. But people were looking in the wrong place.

The catastrophe happened early Tuesday when explosions tore through the colossal Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine — draining one of the Continent’s largest artificial reservoirs. It forced the evacuation of thousands of people downstream, polluted land, destroyed a large electricity generator and will cause future problems with water supplies.

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