Flooding after Ukraine dam breach


Nova Khakovka Dam: 30 metres tall, 3.2km wide. Water level is up by five metres – several downstream islands entirely flooded

Zaporizhya nuclear plant: Under Russian control – gets cooling water from reservoir

UKRAINE
Kherson
KHERSON REGION
Dnieper River

Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant

Mass evacuations of some 80 settlements in potential flood zone

BLACK SEA 
CRIMEA
Zaporizhya 
Kakhovka reservoir
Nikopol

40km 25 miles


UKRAINE
Kyiv 
Kherson region
BLACK SEA
 

Sources: Politico, Reuters 
Picture: Maxar Technologies
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