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 ...

The Ukrainian president said rescue operations were ongoing in the central city - also his hometown - and added the attack showed "Russia does not want a ceasefire, and we see it" ...

Fires and smoke foul the air. Toxins seep into the earth and water. Habitats for wildlife disappear. Experts call it ecocide.

Ukraine's leader earlier claimed 155 Chinese citizens were fighting for the Russian military. Meanwhile, a US-Russia prisoner swap has gone ahead.

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.

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ... Russia also destroyed the nearby Kakhovka dam, emptying the reservoir that supplied water to cool the plant. All six reactors are shut down ...