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Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed.
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Russo-Ukrainian War
Ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then supported Russian paramilitaries who began a war in the eastern Donbas region against Ukraine's military. In 2018,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Kakhovka Dam
Dam and power plant in Kherson, Ukraine
The Kakhovka Dam was a dam on the Dnieper River in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, completed in 1956 and destroyed in 2023, which provided water for the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station. The primary purposes of the dam were hydroelectric power generation, irrigation, and navigation. It…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
2023 dam breach in Ukraine
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
June 6
Day of the year
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