14 June 2025
(Photo: Intent)
The territory of the former Kakhovka Reservoir is gradually returning to its natural state, now overgrown with grasses, shrubs, and in some places trees.
On June 6, 2023, Russia blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. This caused a large-scale environmental and humanitarian disaster: dozens of deaths, millions of people without drinking water, destroyed agriculture, a threat to the Zaporizhzhia NPP, and the spread of mines. The UN has estimated the damage at $14 billion, but the real consequences are yet to be accounted for.
See the photo report from the half-flooded Kherson after the dam was blown up.
It will take decades after the war for scientists to accurately determine the losses Ukraine has suffered. So in Accent, Intent recalled how it happened and talked about the current situation.
In June 2023, Intent 's correspondent Albina Karman witnessed the story of the rescue of Tikhon, a Kherson cat.
After the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was blown up, the occupation authorities did not organize the evacuation of people from the flooded areas of the left-bank Kherson region.
On June 6, the recreation center "Fairy Tale Grove" in the temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka was completely flooded with water after the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was blown up. Only a few animals managed to survive.
Intent is monitoring the situation in the region after the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was blown up.
Кирило Бойко