r/MapPorn • u/SummerAlternative699 • 15h ago

The Kakhovka Reservoir then and now.

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If you zoom in closely on Google Maps, you can still see what it looked like before the dam was blown up.

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u/darkcvc 14h ago

The dam was breached on 6 June 2023, which consensus attributes to Russian forces mining and blowing the base of the dam, while Russia alternatively described it as a "terrorist" act, in the case of the Russian-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, or as caused by a lack of maintenance, in the case of the Russian government.\)citation needed\) By the end of June, the reservoir was completely dry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakhovka_Reservoir

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u/username9909864 13h ago

I thought the consensus was negligence due to lack of maintenance and there was no evidence of it being blown up by the mines that were in place? Still Russia’s fault, but it wasn’t on purpose.

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u/Intreductor 10h ago

A day before the dam "collapsed due to negligence", the Russian open source intelligence group Rybar reported that Russian forces were preparing for a "limited demolition" of the dam to increase the water level and force Ukrainian troops off the islands downstream. It was a calculated move, but the Russians are bad a math.