The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam emptied a reservoir that supplied water to much of southern Ukraine. Thousands were forced to flee as water flooded parts of Kherson, damaging wildlife ...

In the case of the Kakhovka Dam, at the request of Ukraine, prosecutorial teams at the ICC are investigating ... crime” or “ecocide” on the international judicial map. In this way it is hoped that the ...

The deliberate destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war unleashed a hidden environmental crisis, destroying ecosystems and releasing polluted sediments into ...

The 2023 breach of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam caused deadly flooding downstream, threatened to disrupt the cooling system of a nuclear power plant and deprived the region of water for irrigation.

The collapse of the walls of the Kakhovka dam in Kherson, Ukraine sent water flooding into towns and villages. Source: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka Eugene Simonov, Ukraine War Environmental Consequences ...

The EU uses emergency stockpiles and provides funding in response to the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. In June 2023, the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine was destroyed leading to ...

Water resources and infrastructure are also affected by the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine: In June 2023, the Kakhovka Dam, which held water from one of Europe's largest reservoirs, collapsed ...