After the Deluge: One Year on, Can the Ecosystems Disrupted by the Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam Recover?

Jun 3, 2024 | Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Eugene Simonov
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Hydropower dams, often unsafe even in peacetime, become a weapon of mass destruction in times of war. The sabotage of the Kakhovka hydropower plant on Ukraine’s Dnipro River has become the most visible example of this phenomenon. In fact, environmentalists have argued that the simultaneous destruction of hundreds of millions of living organisms caused by the dam’s destruction should be considered as a basis for initiating a case of ecocide under a new article in international law (mass destruction of all living things).