Before and after satellite footage taken by Maxar Technologies shows the extent of flooding after an explosion at a dam in the currently Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine.
Before the explosion, the 30-meter-high and two-kilometer-long dam retained the Kakhovka reservoir, holding 18.2 cubic kilometers of water. Now, at least 230 square miles of surrounding land have been flooded, sweeping hundreds of settlements, destroying homes and ecosystems, and displacing thousands of people.
While investigations are still underway Ukraine has called for a recognition of the dam’s destruction as an act of ecocide.
