The Aftermath of the Kakhovka Dam’s Destruction

Published on by Jonathan Crowe
A pair of Landsat images showing the drainage of the Kakhovka Reservoir in Ukraine after the Kakhovka Dam was breached on 6 June 2023.
Kakhovka Reservoir on 7 June 2022 (top) and 18 June 2023 (bottom). Landsat 8/OLI and Landsat 9/OLI-2, respectively. NASA Earth Observatory/USGS/Lauren Dauphin.

NASA Earth Observatory has before-and-after satellite imagery showing the impact of the destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam last month. The Kakhovka Reservoir is emptying out (above), the irrigation canals that relied on that reservoir are drying out, and there was flooding downriver of the dam in the immediate aftermath of the breach.