A day after the dam’s collapse, the cause remained unclear, with both sides blaming each other. Some experts cited wartime damage and neglect, although others argued that Russia might have destroyed it for military reasons. Either way, concluded analyst Michael Kofman...
Kakhovka dam in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast was destroyed, flooding at least 230 square miles of surrounding land.
Ukraine they control, threatening a massive flood that could displace hundreds of thousands of people, and ordered residents downriver to evacuate. Russian news agency Tass quoted an unspecified Russian government official as saying the dam had “collapsed” due to damage. (Maxa...
An additional satellite image shows growing floodwaters from the Irpin River. CNN previously reported that a dam along the Dnieper River was flooding the Irpin River basin and its tributaries. The Irpin River is critical to the Russian advance toward Kyiv; if the Russians cannot cross it, they ...
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused by the breach of a dam upstream. ...
“And for this we will strive for the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine,” Putin said. A resident of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second biggest city and close to the Russian border, said windows in apartment blocks were shaking from constant blasts. ...
Flood death toll rises:At least three people have drowned in theRussian-occupied town of Oleshkyafter waters unleashed by the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam flooded “about 90%” of the area, the town’s exiled Ukrainian mayor told CNN. Meanwhile, at least five people in theRussian-occup...
19:55, 27-Jan-2023 Putin holds meeting with Russian Security Council Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Russian Security Council on Friday, Interfax reported. 19:46, 27-Jan-2023 Russia conducts massive rocket strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities ...
River-flow forecasts are important for the management and planning of water resources and their rational use. The present study, based on direct multistep-ahead forecasting with multiple time series specific to the XGBoost algorithm, estimates the long-t
MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -A major Soviet-era dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone in what both Ukraine and Russia said was an intentional attack by the other’s forces. ...