maszyny: Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam

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The Kakhovka Dam was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, causing extensive flooding along the lower Dnieper river, also called the Dnipro, in Kherson Oblast. The dam was under the control of the Russian military, which had seized it in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Many experts concluded that Russian forces likely blew up a segment of the dam to hinder the planned Ukrainian counter-offensive, and Ukraine specifically blamed Russia's 205th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. Russian authorities have denied the accusations. The dam was about 30 m (98 ft) tall and 3.2 km (2 mi) long; the breached segment was about 85 m (279 ft) long. Two days after the breach, the…

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Ukraine war: what we know about the Nova Kakhovka dam and who gains from its destruction

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The Kakhovka Sea Before and After the Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam. <p>Sabotage of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River eliminated one third of Ukraine’s fresh water reserves, clean drinking water for 6 million people and domestic supply for more than 13 million. Opinions differ on whether and how to replace it. Fieldwork is constrained by fighting along the course of the lower Dnipro but we have used remote sensing to examine the natural-climatic transformation of the reservoir and dependent areas, which experienced an almost immediate increase of 2.0°С in the land surface temperature, two-fold acceleration of evapotranspiration, and exacerbation of water scarcity.</p>

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ECOCIDE: Quantifying War-Time Environmental Damage: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Kakhovka Dam Destruction. Abstract: International law organisations are actively looking into declaring "ecocide" -- mass environmental destruction -- as a prosecutable international crime and in September 2024, Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa submitted a proposed amendment to Rome Statute. No consistent, statistically sound method yet has been developed to document such a claim of harm, however, because prior environmental trends are not easily differentiated from harm caused by conflict, existing satellite-based assessments of environmental war damage are qualitative and based on visual interpretations…

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The Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam

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Knowledge-Driven Flood Intelligent Monitoring (KDFIM) Method: Analyzing to the Kakhovka Dam Destruction Incident_supp1-3594119.docx

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Post-disaster Needs Assessment: 2023 Kakhovka Dam Disaster, Ukraine

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The environmental health impacts of Russia's war on Ukraine.. Background Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 ignited the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian government agencies, civil society organizations, and international agencies have gathered an unprecedented amount of data about the impact of war on the environment, which is often the silent victim of war. We review these data and highlight the limitations of international governance for protection of the environment during time of war. Methods We performed an integrative review of academic, institutional, and media information resources using the search terms "Ukraine", "Russia", "war", "environme…

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Kherson (Ukrainian and Russian: Херсон, Ukrainian: [xerˈsɔn] , Russian: [xʲɪrˈson]) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-building industry and is a regional economic centre. At the beginning of 2022, its population was estimated at 279,131. The city was founded as a base for the Russian Empire's Black Sea Fleet on the site of a fortress previously established by Zaporozhian Cossacks. During the 19th and early 20th century Kherson served as the regional capital of eponymous governorate, becoming a major centre of trade and transport. Under the Sovie…

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Functional diversity shifts and ruderalisation of floodplain in the early post-disturbance stage after wartime dam destruction in Ukraine. Abstract The present study aimed to assess the early functional responses of plant communities to extreme anthropogenic disturbances caused by war. To this end, the case of the Kakhovka Dam destruction in June 2023 was examined. The functional structure of plant communities in the first year following the event on Khortytsia Island in the lower Dnipro floodplain (southern Ukraine) was analysed. The research identified 146 species of vascular plants and employed multivariate analysis, utilising functional diversity indices and principal component analysis…

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Post-Breach Landscape Transformation of the Former Kakhovka Reservoir Bed. Abstract The destruction of the Kakhovka Hydropower Plant dam in June 2023 caused rapid drainage of one of the largest reservoirs in Ukraine and exposed an extensive reservoir bed that began to develop as a new post-disturbance landscape mosaic. This study assesses the post-breach landscape transformation of the former Kakhovka Reservoir bed using multi-temporal Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8/9 satellite data processed in Google Earth Engine. The analysis combines a five-class surface-type classification, monthly structural dynamics, transition-matrix analysis for 2023–2025, an author-proposed Degradation State Difference…