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Thank you for covering the catastrophe. It’s utterly disastrous for Ukraine and Ukrainians and we appreciate thoughtful takes on the tragedy

Hard topic but important to talk about!

Thanks for the informative video. The tragedy was caused by russia

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.

Thank you for this video! We still have no idea what Russia blowing Kakhovka dam is going to mean to us long term

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

Thank you for this video. 🇺🇦

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.

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 hadn't known that there was actual footage of the explosion. This video tells a grim tale indeed.

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

thank you for such an educational video! it's terrifying that russia seemingly goes unpunished after all this

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 .

Thank you for covering this theme

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.

This is really important to know. Thanks for your work!

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

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

Thank you for such important topic in video 💙💛

restore nature. great video

Thank you for this video!

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 for your awareness

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.

Excellent video!

Thank you !!!

Thank you for telling the story as it is with all consequences and whe did it happen

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

This is a catastrophe! Good reporting (subscribed)

thank you for the truthful coverage of such a terrible disaster in Ukraine, russia should be held responsible for the committed ecocide

You covered this controetrial disaster well.

so much destruction so sad

This will make great grazing land. After all, who actually needs carbohydrates? Nature does its own thing.

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

The possible consequences of building dams. Heard about the Super Dam under construction in Tibet?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

where goes United States of America and NATO only disaster comes 😢😢😢 Greetings from beautiful Italy 🇮🇹

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

Them first 2 clips weren’t of the same dam.

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.

The region has returned to its natural state.

I don't understand why they needed to blow it. Couldn't they just open it?

Look at him next to real men. Soooo tiny. Like a doll

whenever russians start to interfear in nature disasters will strike look at the aral lake

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.

Like some painter in the past was saying: Russians are a different kind of "humans"..

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.

War Crime, without declaring Total War destroying a Dam. Should be a NATO doctrine 💔

A land brutalised by war, perhaps this is an equivalent of the collapse of the marib dam in Yemen

Unfortunately russia is not punished for that crime

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It’s going to take a long time to forgive Russia with all its wrong doings, if ever.

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Russia should be punished for this act of terrorism

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Wetlands are some of the most diverse areas. Work should be done to allow a new wetlands ecosystem to establish there after the war.

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.

Headache inducing background music (too loud), didn't watch.

Russia need to be held accountable. Whina too for their part

... sadly....nobody gives a f***. nor "the west" , neather our politicians 😔

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.

Dude it's literally back to the natural state

Dam is bad for river so for ecosystem.

This is what Tiny Putin does. He is sooo small and tiny. Like a child

I feel bad for the people and wildlife. Everyone is to blame for this catastrophe.

Anyone else notice the booger😂😂😂😂

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…

Hope the land returns to nature. Humanity only exists to destroy

Leave the river without a dam. Nature will take advanrage of it and heal itself

My favorite part of war is all the innocent people and ecosystems that are torn apart for petty disagreements !!!

The Zoo was evacuated to Donetsk in 2022

豚は肉屋になつく

The habitat wouldn’t exist anyway without humans

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...

Why did zelenskey blow the dam?

Blame Victoria nuland - the architect of this disaster

Papa Pu will fix it.

Thanks Zelenskyy!

Why would Russia blow up the dam and leave Crimea without drinking water

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.

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.

Terra Mater is pro WEF? Is pro NATO? Is pro conflict? And yes, the BGM is too loud

Why did zelensky do this 🤷🏾‍♀️ stop blaming Russia☝🏽🤦🏿

Break down dams let the river flow

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 🤷

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