Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing upthe Kakhovka damand hydroelectric power station, which sits on the Dnieper River in an area Moscow has controlled for more than a year. Russian officials blamed Ukrainian bombardment in the contested area, where the rive...
The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine has collapsed, triggering floods, endangering Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies.
Kakhovka dam in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast was destroyed, flooding at least 230 square miles of surrounding land.
But the experience had captured my imagination. Every time we passed by the “hermit’s cabin,” as we had come to call the place, I strained to see if he was visible. He never was. When I was 16 or so, news of “Kaysinger Dam” swept through all the conversations in Warsaw and ...
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