Why the Kakhovka Dam is a Turning Point for Ukraine’s Wilderness
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The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in June 2023 was an unmitigated disaster for southern Ukraine. And not just in human terms - the environment has been devastated too.
Floodwaters, oil leaks, and desalination are taking their toll on areas below the dam, including the UNESCO-protected Nizhnyodniprovskyi National Nature Park. Upstream, the sudden loss of reservoir water may turn wetlands into desert, and cause dust pollution in the air. How can these changes be managed? And what might it mean for Europe beyond Ukraine? We take a look at Kakhovka’s history and try to assess what the future will bring.
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00:00 Intro
00:30 Overview: Can the dam and reservoir be restored?
01:49 History of the Kakhovka Reservoir and dam construction
02:43 Dam and reservoir stats
03:27 Kakhovka dam on the frontline & destruction
04:41 Consequences divided in 2 parts: floods & droughts
08:14 What does this mean for local wildlife?
09:36 Shall we leave the Dineper River withouth the dam?
🔗 Sources:
(1) Maxar News Bureau www.maxar.com/news-bureau
(2) Le Monde: Ukraine: Fears of environmental disaster after Kakhovka dam destruction www.lemonde.fr/en/environment...
(3) Researchgate: Odessa State Environmental University: Mariia Slizhe et al: Synoptic Conditions for Dry Winds in August 2010 in Ukraine - The main agriclimatic zones. www.researchgate.net/publicat...
(4) Defense Express: 1943 Maps Show What Ukraine's Kakhovka Reservoir Will Look Like When the Waters Settle Down. en.defence-ua.com/news/1943_m...
(5) BBC News: What attacks have there been on dams in Ukraine? www.bbc.com/news/world-65753136
(6) The Guardian: Nova Kakhovka dam: everything you need to know about Ukraine’s strategically important reservoir www.theguardian.com/world/202...
(7) UN OCHA UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE 2023: reports.unocha.org/en/country...
(8) UA TV: National Park is 80% flooded. uatv.ua/en/national-park-is-8...
(9) Wim Zwijnenburg, PAX Report: A Preliminary Environmental Risk Assessment of the Kakhovka Dam Flooding. paxvoorvrede.nl/wp-content/up...
(10) UA TV: The National Nature Reserve Park - CZcams T6aXWwF93W0
(11) EcoPolitic: 150 tons of engine oil from the Kakhovka HPP entered the Dnipro Riverecopolitic.com.ua/en/news/u-r...
(12) Ukrainska Pravda: Black Sea desalination begins due to explosion at Kakhovka HPP - State Ecological Inspectorate www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/20...
(13) Yahoo! News: Velykyi Luh and Kamianska Sich parks draining, nitrite levels in Inhulets River rise - news.yahoo.com/velykyi-luh-ka...
(14) UA TV: Nyzhnyosulsk National Park - CZcams qW7hh5SDs8k
(15) EcoPolitic: Tens of thousands of birds and wild animals may die in Ukraine: ecopolitic.com.ua/en/news/v-u...
(16) Ramsar Sites Information Service: Archipelago Velyki and Mali Kuchugury - rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2282#:~:t....
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I think beavers might help
Thank you for covering the catastrophe. It’s utterly disastrous for Ukraine and Ukrainians and we appreciate thoughtful takes on the tragedy
Thank you for watching it!
@@terramater~ 2/3rds of the Crimean peninsula relied on that water for its population and farming.
It’s been Ukraine bombing the Nuclear facility this entire time.
IAEA inspectors have been there for months, claiming that Russia hasn’t mined the place as Ukraine has claimed.
..and if you actually cared, you’d have done your homework by now to find that it was the US who sponsored the original Nazis to begin with and that Ukraine is the Reich Wing 2.0.
Could be that you care so much that you forgot, but that’s not likely the case.
@@terramaterIt only hampers russian control east bank.
@cass_cass22 Yes when a Nazi regime decides it will destroy its own country and kill its own citizens that is a catastrophe.
Hard topic but important to talk about!
Exactly 🇪🇬 we had similar situation with Ethiopia from 2011 could lead to huge disaster and huge de stability in suez canal and all east Africa with ten of million refugee war effect Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Libya, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya will certainly be affected by the military or security impact if the refugees from that region move to Europe or to different regions with a population of approximately 400 million. A breeze in the countries of the Nile Valley and its affected neighborhood, a global catastrophe may occur if Egypt's proportions are affected by the annual flow of water from the Nile
That’s for sure!
Yes. Why haven’t we designated Russia a terrorist organization yet?
Thanks for the informative video. The tragedy was caused by russia
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Western media says that Russia did it, but the on ground conditions dispute that..
That and everything that western media says is a lie. If you haven’t noticed..
@@terramaterinvasive species and their link to climate change
Thank you for this video! It's terrifying, what russians did in Ukraine
And that's not the first catastrophe they did - also Syria, Georgia and Chechnya had their horrific stories
But you made one mistake: Dnipro, not Dnieper
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@@terramater I'm Ukrainian, of course I did
@@Susanna_Winnich Thank you so much for this feedback, Susanna! I really tried my best in order not to totally mispronounce Ukrainian names. So for the Dnipro, I chose the easy way out and used the English translation of the river. I know, it feels a bit like cheating ;-)
@@Susanna_Winnichone of the reasons the US backed the Nazis was to force the emergent collector the USSR to use up its immediate resources to defeat the Nazis, thus allowing the U.S. to take world hegemony via the petro dollar.
Sound familiar to today? It should. Ukraine is the Reich Wing 2.0., shaped as a human shield around US regional strategy. Took me years to piece it all together, but I figured out that the U.S. sponsored the Nazis years before this debacle in Ukraine exploded, npi..
Then I learned about Stepan Bandera and what he did do the Jews, Polish, and Soviets nearly a hundred years ago.
You should know what your country is being used.. especially when it happened before.
Thank you for this video! We still have no idea what Russia blowing Kakhovka dam is going to mean to us long term
Thank you for watching it!
It wasn’t Russia..
@@andreyukhov9403 which makes it a target for Ukraine.. it’s the only nuke that Ukraine has..
Ukraine publicly admitted to shooting HIMARS at the dam. Are you so sure it’s Russia?
@@andreyukhov9403ask Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk about that.
Oooo thank you for that video! Now more people can be aware of the consequences of this catastrophe in my country
Thank you for talking about this important topic
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This is my favourite video for now, Because I like most videos ...but this one I loved. i really liked your take on both sides and its something that we have to think about when it comes to Dams. I come from a country that is in a Damming phase for economic development ( mainly food security in rural areas) and I was for the most part not a fan of dams ...But this video got me thinking.
Hi Chichi!
Thanks for the feedback and insights! Where are you from?
I hadn't known that there was actual footage of the explosion. This video tells a grim tale indeed.
I think it's some stock footage, not the actual dam exploding
thank you for such an educational video! it's terrifying that russia seemingly goes unpunished after all this
Thank you for watching it!
@@terramater ~ how are those western supplied uranian rounds doing? Smoldering away?
I actually did my homework and find your spin against Russia to be disingenuous and contrived.
It’s the U.S. who sponsored the Nazis to begin with. Ukraine is the Reich Wing 2.0.
Go read a book.
it's not Russia but ukraine
Bot lol
And what about USA? It has gone unpunished for destruction of 7 country. 🤡🤡.
Teaching starts at home.
Thank you for this video. 🇺🇦
Thank you for watching it!
I’m usually agains river dams but this was actually makes sense. The arid desert around it was transformed to fertile fields and biodiversity actually increased.
I think that's a misunderstanding. The immediate area was wetlands while the surrounding area was steppe not desert. The dam did displace the steppe but significant wetlands were also preserved in the process south of the dam. However just because the dam is gone that doesn't mean that the steppe will reappear, at least not quickly, and that's the main issue here. Sure over geological time the steppe would probably reestablish itself in the immediate future this is a disaster for the local environment and rebuilding the dam is the best option.
@@hedgehog3180The dam must be rebuilt, or at least some sort of dam system. The area is naturally quite arid, without a dam or system of dams agriculture cannot continue on the scale it did. And Ukrainian agriculture is invaluable for feeding the world.
Western nations ought to send engineers over to Ukraine to help them rebuild the dam as fast as safely possible when the war ends.
@@Carolus_Tsanghow long would it take for the reservoir to fill up?
@@flopunkt3665 half of a year or so
@@Carolus_Tsangso basically we need beavers 🦫
Thank you so much for covering the ecocide caused by russia and drawing attention to all the horrible consequences the land and people are facing. It is a very important topic and more people need to hear about that. I also appreciate the efforts put to pronounce Ukrainian toponyms correctly .
Hi! Thanks for the feedback and for watching our video? Were you already aware of this topic before watching this video?
@@terramater I am Ukrainian, so yes, I was very much aware, however, lack of coverage in the English-speaking media was very frustrating to me
Bot lol
Ukraine blew up the dam.
Thank you for covering this theme
I really would have liked more analysis of those old maps of how this area looked before the dam to judge the idea of maybe not rebuilding it.
The war won't end tomorrow and then there's demining to be done first before one can start to rebuild anything. A big dam like this isn't constructed in a year either.
So, potentially, going back to what it looked like with the dam might be 5+ years from now. A discussion of whether by that time it would still be a good idea or how to "bridge" the time until then would also be interesting.
Thanks for the feedback and for the insights!
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@@terramater yes, I follow the war pretty closely and I'm from a family of engineers and have visited many a dam during my childhood.
Also, I'm Austrian, the changes potentially caused by a dam to be built were a major political issue and widely here. Preventing Hainburg dam was the origin story of our greens party.
I think that in terms of ecosystems something like 5 years isn't enough to make a significant difference, those things develop over decades not years.
A dam or system of dams or levees must be built, to ensure farmers and people can continue to do their work and live their livelihoods. Of course it doesn't have to be built back exactly as the old one was, there is room for modernization and building smaller but more efficient dam systems, but something must be built to prevent the land from returning to the wasteland steppes they once were, to allow agriculture to continue.
It's ironic that military maps from ww2 were the best record of what the area was like before the dam was built, in the former marshes remains of troops killed that were concealed by the vegetation that was submerged by the dam which drowned it hence when the lake vanished their remains were visible
It's a matter of incentive. A good map is a matter of life and death for the military when a bad map could delay a crucial operation by days costing victory.
USSR had better maps of London than the UK itself lol.
This is really important to know. Thanks for your work!
Thanks for watching it!
Thank you for telling the truth about this tragedy. My home was flooded. Russian made this, they're killing people, nature. And i'm really thankful that you telling people the thuth
We're so sorry to hear that :( Thanks for watching our video, and we wish you all the best!
No proof Russia did it. Ukraine did admit to shooting HIMARS at the dam, though.
Thank you for such important topic in video 💙💛
Hi Nadia!
Thank you for watching it!
Thank you for this video!
Thank you for watching it!
Thank you for this video. The ecocide caused by the Russians is horrible, and there'll be disastrous long-term outcomes we don't know of yet
Hi Mykola!
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No proof that it was even Russia…
@@geo.m1639sure, sure.
Except their track record all over the world, the amount of damage it caused Ukraine and Ukrainian counter-offence, the fact that they occupied the dam for over a year, multiple sources reporting on the mining of the dam (which is a type of building SPECIFICALLY made to withstand tremendous damage, especially from outside) AND multiple ru operatives boasting how good of a job they did. But ye, no proof, what a truly mysterious situation 😂
@@DariaElGrellPozina yes and you clearly forgot about a literal CNN Article about Ukraine Testing Himars on the location..
@@geo.m1639 sure, what's more likely- terrorist state that destroyed 60 tonns of grain that was supposed to leave Odesa ports 2 months ago but the terrorists that broke their neighbors' sovereignty countless times already didn't uphold the agreed upon grain corridor (what a surprise) destroying yet another civilian object, commiting yet another war crime and causing yet nother humanitarian disaster OR military of the defending country hitting their own civilian object and causing their own territory and people immense damage.
As I said, truly an unsolvable mystery, truly both sides have equal likelihood of causing this 👍
thank you for the truthful coverage of such a terrible disaster in Ukraine, russia should be held responsible for the committed ecocide
Hi Lucy!
Thank you for watching our video!
Ok Lucy.. not that every claim by Ukraine against Russia has been proven false or anything..
US sponsored the Nazis to begin with. Look it up..
If you knew anything you’d know that Russia didn’t do this.
Signed, an American.
ukraine destroyed the bridge
A silver lining to this whole thing is that it might spur the international community to start considering the inherent value of ecosystems and require compensation for it's destruction.
@@hedgehog3180 ~ money can’t fix that shit.. that’s the scam of capitalism to begin with.
In capitalism, no lives matter.
Thank you for your awareness
Thank you for watching it!
Excellent video!
Thank you !!!
Hi Kris!
Thank you for watching it!
I was trying to find something like drone footage or aerial pictures of the Kakhovka reservoir as it stands now, but could just find a handful of articles and pictures. Today I tried again and was happily surprised to find this video. Your source listing seems exceptional in todays "fast food" media which often just parrots things, even when the original source isn't confirmed... I've wondered a bit why there seemingly isn't much news about the situation with the reservoir.
We'e happy you found our video and could get informed with it! How did you first hear about this topic?
@@terramater Well, I've been following multiple CZcamsrs who are reporting daily and after the dam was blown, there were lots of talk about motor oil spilling. And of course I wanted to know more about the aftermath. Reservoirs and dams are environmentally problematic if there's a lot of rotting biomass under the water (a source of methane) and also if there are no proper ways for fish to go upstream.
restore nature. great video
🌱 thanks for watching!
Great video about the environmental impact of the dam destruction but you also included the impact of building it in the first place. It will be interesting to see what the best strategy will be going forward once the war is over. Given the importance of Ukraine's agricultural exports my guess is the dam will be rebuilt but hopefully in a more environmentally friendly way.
Thank you so much for talking about this catastrophe brought to us by russia. The consequences are terrible already, but they might be even worse with time.
Hi Helga!
Thank you for watching it! Were you aware of this topic before watching this video?
@@terramater yeah, I’m from Ukraine. I think it’s really important what you do with this video, raising awareness for people around the world too. Thank you.
It wasn’t Russia..
Look it up.. and not cnn please..
The Ukrainians blew up the dam. The Russians had nothing to do with it. Your support of a Nazi regime which would destroy the entire world if they had the capability should be embarrassing to you but you are too stupid to feel shame.
You should probably talk to the Nazis who run your government because it was the SBU that blew up the dam.
Thank you for telling the story as it is with all consequences and whe did it happen
Thanks for watching it!
This is a catastrophe! Good reporting
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so much destruction so sad
Exactly 🇪🇬 we had similar situation with Ethiopia from 2011 could lead to huge disaster and huge de stability in suez canal and all east Africa with ten of million refugee war effect Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Libya, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya will certainly be affected by the military or security impact if the refugees from that region move to Europe or to different regions with a population of approximately 400 million. A breeze in the countries of the Nile Valley and its affected neighborhood, a global catastrophe may occur if Egypt's proportions are affected by the annual flow of water from the Nile
We know 😔 but important for people to see that, right?
You covered this controetrial disaster well.
Hi Kevin!
Thanks for the feedback! Have you heard about this topic before watching the video?
Thanks for the video
It's still really hard to comprehend the scale of all these catastrophes that were unleashed by russia on my country. Content like this can help people from other countries understand this scale
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Stepan Bandera who?
The U.S. sought and caused this war.. I’m American and even I know that, lol
@@72marshflower15
Moron!
Bandera is your daddy! Zelensky and the U.S caused the War.
I appreciate you highlighting this act of ecological terrorism by russia. It's a humanitarian disaster. Sometimes as a Ukrainian it feels like nobody out there is listening. But videos like this give me hope.
Yeah, umm, educated and informed Americans know what Ukraine is and no, we don’t support Ukraine, the sex trafficking capital of Europe..
Stepan Bandera who?
Gtfo..
How are those smoldering depleated uranium rounds doing?
Russia did not blow up that dam.
It was Ukraine, kgokhol, you’ll never be a part of the West.
Its an unfortunate part of the world where I live in England there hasn't been ground warfare for 380 years!
You Ukrainians elected a President that legalize cannabis so that you all can dope with his cocaine head. What do you expect? Dope decision. He blowed the dam
This will make great grazing land. After all, who actually needs carbohydrates? Nature does its own thing.
It is impossible for me not to think that the destruction of the dam has simply returned the man-dominated landscape to what it was before its construction. The damage that his fall has caused is unfortunate, it is undeniable. peace for the people.
Exactly 🇪🇬 we had similar situation with Ethiopia from 2011 could lead to huge disaster and huge de stability in suez canal and all east Africa with ten of million refugee war effect Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Libya, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya will certainly be affected by the military or security impact if the refugees from that region move to Europe or to different regions with a population of approximately 400 million. A breeze in the countries of the Nile Valley and its affected neighborhood, a global catastrophe may occur if Egypt's proportions are affected by the annual flow of water from the Nile
Hi Mohamed!
That’s thought! Thanks for the insights!
The possible consequences of building dams.
Heard about the Super Dam under construction in Tibet?
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll take a look at it!
In the meantime, have you already watched our video about dams? czcams.com/video/XfJdTCmkoaA/video.html
@@terramater Oh yes! Always look forward for your videos
wow, that was short but fulfilling explanation of what is kahovka dam is... or rather was.
and sure needs to be reminded that if not russia invasion in ukraine it all could not happen at all.
Thank you for watching it!
Thank you for this video. You know, id really ask why this happened 1 day after i sent an email to a NATO units trainer in Slovakia, Western neighbour of Ukraine, Ms Ptáčková.. an email about Gabčíkovo water dam on Danube near Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, named after Jozef Gabčík from the Operation Anthropoid, who participated on the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest ranked nazi of the Third Reich, the architect of Holocaust. I am a granddaughter of Anton Jablonsky from Jablonka on the Slovak-Polish borders, who was also the part of the ww2 resistance and who was in charge of the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros barrage system project and as the head of the project centre at Hydroconsult and also fought for Gabčíkovo to be finished after the international disputes with Hungary went really big scale and viral in the western institutions after Slovakia gained its independence after 1989 and became its own nation kn 1993. My question is why nobody talks about Jozef Gabčík properly and publicly in Kremlin, in Russia, but neither elsewhere, when Kemlin calls the war in Ukraine "denazification" but so far behaves like mazis themselves. Having said that, inwas more than astonished to hear Zuzana Čaputová, the president of Slovakia lie to Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine that Gabčíkovo hydroelectric power plant producing clean energy on Danube in the South of Slovakia.. that she lied it's Vojany, the black coal-fired powerplant, polluting the east of Slovakia close to Ukraine. Surprisingly Volodymyr Zelensky didn't correct her false statement and thus this wrong message was spread to the world. The interpreter of Čaputová translated Vojany as Vajany, which is the plural of Vajana/Moana, which might be connected to the pictures of Moana and her grandmother I sent to Čaputová and the primeminister and the police in connection to Gabčíkovo and my Grandpa. However, shortly after Čaputová called Gabčíkovo Vojany, the insane fire on the Hawaiian island Maui broke out on August 8, 2023. 88 carries a nazi symbolism ever since ww2: 88=SS. The fire broke out in a weird way, 1 day after the US Navy ship with a new warship pirate flag sailed into the Joint port of Pearl Harbor-Hickam on the neighbouring island for all to see, while the warning system on Maui was not turned on the next day as the fire broke out even though it's the most advanced warning system in the world, the water was turned off so the fire can't be extinguished, people were forced to stay in the fire zone and forbiden to flee tonsafety by the police, and many children burnt in their homes with their parents as they stayd at home that morning for no school was on that day. I consider this to be an extremely alarming situation on a broadly international level in connection to Slovakia because all this time ive been trying to warn the world that we all must talk about Jozef Gabčík now as the world is becoming more and more radical so that we can find a way to avoid disasters from happening because Slovakia was the country Hitler misused to start ww2 as his satellite fascist state and rhe 1st transportations to the Holocaust's concentration camps left Slovakia, ni other country but Slovakia. Krav Maga was born in the streets of nazi Bratislava where jees had to fight for life with their bare hands to survive. What happened in connection to the Kakhovka dam disaster as well as the Maui 88 fire in connection to Gabčíkovo strongly reminds me of Holocaust rebirth desires of some really sick minds on the top world level. Mind you Hawaiian Maui island is planned to go 100% clean energy by 2045 and is supposed to be fully governed by AI as the 1st place in the world which are things i dont oppose at all, quite the opposite that i admire, but given the fact that ive been in a conversation with the Hawaiian Google translator AI for years now as a former SingularityU Bratislava Chapter leadership team member (Singularity University) and as it was my paternal Grandpa Anton Jablonsky from Jablonka who also represented Czechoslovakia in COMECON (nowadays BRICS), it's more than strange that my maternal cousin Andrea Brezanová, born Daubnerová, was elected by all the member states of OECD as the vice-president of the budget committee of OECD IN 2015 and 2017 which was during my unfair divorce when we had nothing to eat and my kids were threatened to go to children's home because of the lies of Karol Kleinmann, my Grandpa's enemy, and then, after the murder of Jan Kuciak and his fiance, which was on the anniversary of my wedding, 1 day after ther the final divorce court hearing, and after Andrea Brezanová went to work as an advisor to the national office of the finance of the kingdom of Bahrain both her parents suddenly died of respiratory Covid related problems together with Kleinmann, who actually died on March 28, 2021, which is the birthday of John Amos Comenius, the teacher of nations. Also mind you OECD is a former Marshall plan that was created in the USA to help other countries up after ww2. I'd say there should be a better way of economic and business development as well as technological cooperation and on a new global scale merging OECD and BRICS together becus, I'd dare to say, these guys in charge lead the world into utter destruction and AI knows.. and can and wants to help not to destroy the world and the bad part of the history not to be repeated.. thank you for your attention and for being individually responsible for the better future of mankind. Marianne North, born Marianna Jablonská
The region has returned to its natural state.
No, the region is flooded beyond the river's natural floodplains. The land probably won't even get a chance to regenerate from the flood as a lot of key infrastructure relies on the dam and the reservoir.
This will be a insane disaster.
5:35 i have never heard if these UNESCO world sites but so sad these animals suffer from iur actions as a race.
Those who blew up the dam have to be shown to the world they should be remembered for this trajedy
Russians blew up the damb. They occupied the territory, mined the damb from the inside and blew it up. And yes, they should be remembered and held accountable for this ecocide and genocide of Ukrainians.
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where goes United States of America and NATO only disaster comes 😢😢😢
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I don't understand why they needed to blow it. Couldn't they just open it?
The dam was also a bridge and the Russians wanted to do everything possible to stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Earlier in the war the Russians Had laid mines just for the propose of blowing up the dam. By blowing up the dam they caused a massive flood which destroyed much in its path. It stopped the Ukrainian counter offensive in the area, but caused massive damage to the civilians and environment.
Well that’s what terrorists do. They raise the water level and then blow up the dam.
@@royalteluis623the bridge over the dam was already blown up for months. It was pure and simple terrorism.
Fun fact you can collapse a dam by over flow water and let complicated flow physic erosion underneath dam
Look at him next to real men. Soooo tiny. Like a doll
Them first 2 clips weren’t of the same dam.
Russia need to be held accountable. Whina too for their part
I thought Ukraine blew up the dam
@@OssamabinKennywith what? Ukraine didn’t have a way to blow up that dam to that degree. Nor did they have control over it. They couldn’t even blow up the antonovskiy bridge that well
@@TKUA11 Ukraine has been getting great quality weapons from NATO.
Also; best of Russian weapons during the Soviet era was made in Ukraine.
Anything Russia has, Ukraine has and more.
I’m not pro Russia, but I’m anti-propaganda.
Russia had no reason to destroy that dam but Ukraine did.
@@OssamabinKennyi am not racist, but.
@@mirolubos If you found yourself incapable of logical and reasonable discourse, attack your
Opponent with empty labels and buzz words Lubos. 👏
Like some painter in the past was saying: Russians are a different kind of "humans"..
Build aquifers not reservoirs. Canals seem better use of land than flooding it. Like the canal Afghanistan is half done with. Green the deserts melt the Arctic the right way.
A land brutalised by war, perhaps this is an equivalent of the collapse of the marib dam in Yemen
Russia should be punished for this act of terrorism
Unfortunately russia is not punished for that crime
Caused by kiev
@@norikyou64 how it was done by Kiev if the dam was under Russian control?
It’s going to take a long time to forgive Russia with all its wrong doings, if ever.
whenever russians start to interfear in nature disasters will strike
look at the aral lake
War Crime, without declaring Total War destroying a Dam. Should be a NATO doctrine 💔
I understand the imperative to keep the war out of Russian territory, especially since they have nukes.
But I doubt any nation would condemn a commando strike to destroy a similar dam in Russia as retaliation in-kind.
Call it the only truly credible deterrent to similar repeated attacks in the future.
It wasn’t Russia to begin with..
Look, I hate what they did as much as the next guy, I hope Ukraine wins, but destroying another dam just to make a point won't help anyone. It would just lead to more ecological disaster, more suffering for people who don't have anything to do with the war, more anger on both sides, and it would make them just as bad as Russia was with this attack
@@Bionstic ~ you guys are falling for the weaponized disinformation of Ukraine harder than you did for 9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan..
Every claim that Ukraine has made against Russia has been either a complete spin or utterly false out the gate.
It’s the U.S. who sponsored the Nazis to begin with. It’s true. If you actually cared, you’d have done your homework by now. Stepan Bandera sends his regards. Ukraine is the Reich Wing 2.0.
It's such a disaster... which has been happening for billions of years.
If you rewind the clocks back to when the Great Pyramids were being built. Half of California was deep under ocean. It's actually why California looks the way it does now.
Well I hate to break it to you all but the weather that we've been experiencing is abnormal. The planet is going to return back to how it was. We can speed that process up or we can slow that process down but we cannot stop it.
Wetlands are some of the most diverse areas. Work should be done to allow a new wetlands ecosystem to establish there after the war.
Headache inducing background music (too loud), didn't watch.
I didn't even notice background music until I read your comment.
@@SNS95 I suppose depends on listening device, frequency range of speaker and the hearing ability of the person. Many older people can't hear all the sounds. Same for people that listen to loud music, etc.
Dude it's literally back to the natural state
The human impacts are awful and reprehensible. But this argument implies a premise that the ecologic health of Ukraine depended on the dam, as though it were inherent to it. It is almost never the case that large hydro results in a net improvement in biodiversity and natural resiliency. I would imagine that over the long term, the dam's absence would be a net ecologic positive, which they briefly acknowledge. No animals are evolved to optimize their strategy around artificial barriers like that. The immediate environmental impact is large and negative, but lets not forget what dams ARE. The ecosystem was vibrant before the dam after all, just different. I would probably vote for the dam to be rebuilt if I were asked, but on human and not environmental grounds. When making ecological arguments, we absolutely should be thinking in terms of decades and centuries, not years.
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... sadly....nobody gives a f***.
nor "the west" , neather our politicians
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I feel bad for the people and wildlife. Everyone is to blame for this catastrophe.
This is what Tiny Putin does. He is sooo small and tiny. Like a child
Dam is bad for river so for ecosystem.
Hi Oleg!
We also have a video about it: czcams.com/video/XfJdTCmkoaA/video.html
Welcome to the worlds next conflict. The War for Water. The Water War’s. Imagine living on a planet 70% water and fighting over it…oh wait…
Hi Tyler, unfortunately this is a big concern approaching us :(
Anyone else notice the booger😂😂😂😂
it's a scar from an accident in my childhood. thanks for noticing though! ;-)
This part of nature existed before the dam. Life went on then. What about thinking of how to restore the eco system when the war is over. I prefer to be optimistic and look to the future. Lots of cities in Europe were destroyed in ww11. Look at them now. Everything is possible. Just stop the doomsday scenario and think of how to rebuild.
that's what we did. just watch until the end of the video: of course an ecosystem can be restored but it will take time and the simple destruction of a dam as an act of war is never a good idea.
@@philipalcazar destruction of the dam is an act of cowardice of desperate rabid dogs of Russia.
My favorite part of war is all the innocent people and ecosystems that are torn apart for petty disagreements !!!
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"you dont exist as a people" "yes we do!" wouldn't call that petty
Petty disagreements? Is that like saying a girl was responsible for being raped because of petty disagreements about how short her skirt was?
"so you hate waffles?"
I apologize if my comment offended you, but at no point did I say that I believed Ukraine was at fault for defending itself. (Although I can understand why you'd come to this conclusion) I was generalizing wars and conflict as a whole, not the Ukrainian war in particular as the attributes I described are in no way secular. I ask you kindly to take your anger elsewhere ^^
your comment is so wrong on so many levels. i am sure it is only lack of knowledge of english language and pure ignorance.
Hope the land returns to nature. Humanity only exists to destroy
Hi Zain!
It's sad, but it's true, we cannot keep on treating nature like this.
Leave the river without a dam. Nature will take advanrage of it and heal itself
The habitat wouldn’t exist anyway without humans
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The Zoo was evacuated to Donetsk in 2022
The Kherson zoo? What are these Russian bots smoking? Some animals were stolen to Crimea but many animals were still there
It is now New Russia. It will prosper with toil and sweat. No multinationals, or their green stooges, need apply.
Russian suffered the most because Ukraine destroyed this dam... Since southern of Ukraine is composed by Russian people...
Papa Pu will fix it.
Why did zelenskey blow the dam?
rusians do this!
Blame Victoria nuland - the architect of this disaster
Why would Russia blow up the dam and leave Crimea without drinking water
Exactly 🇪🇬 we had similar situation with Ethiopia from 2011 could lead to huge disaster and huge de stability in suez canal and all east Africa with ten of million refugee war effect Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Libya, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya will certainly be affected by the military or security impact if the refugees from that region move to Europe or to different regions with a population of approximately 400 million. A breeze in the countries of the Nile Valley and its affected neighborhood, a global catastrophe may occur if Egypt's proportions are affected by the annual flow of water from the Nile
Could easily have been a short-sighted means to halt Ukrainian advance. It's not like Russian Military's strategy has been impeccable...
I've read and heard in a few places that Ukraine did this.
Desperation and or militaristic incompetence
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Thanks Zelenskyy!
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a blokade or a dam in a huge river system is the worst thing for a water ecosystem and migratory fish etc, period! Though i recognize that other types of nature might be lost but those where manmade
You should have included that the Russians did this. Not the time to be neutral. Pick a side. The lake bed has started greening over. Interesting video.
We don't know that there is no evidence
Shame Ukraine destroyed the Russian built dam . A simple attempt to destroy Russian occupied land & the Zaporizhia NPP
Not the smartest choice to mix russia's war of aggression against Ukraine into any environmental topic.
Why? It’s genocide of Ukrainians AND ecocide of our country’s nature. They want us to cease to exist and leave burned ground. They DO make ecological situation on the planet much worse while killing people in the nearby countries. Russia is a terrorist state and you can’t close your eyes on what they do.
Break down dams let the river flow
Just one little nuance, who's gonna grow the cheap grain to feed the global South 😒
Guess you were not listening as to why that is not a good idea in this particular case. Eco purist nonsense.
@@katekursive1370 Some think that the environment is worth more than human life. We need to strike a better balance but one should not replace the other.
Terra Mater is pro WEF? Is pro NATO? Is pro conflict?
And yes, the BGM is too loud
They seem pretty neutral to me
Why did zelensky do this 🤷🏾♀️ stop blaming Russia☝🏽🤦🏿
May be if the west was this concerned about wildlife they should have negotiated with Russia properly to end the war instead of fueling it 🤷
Yeah cause russia is well known for caring about the envirionment..
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