According to various media sources, the recent flooding from the damaged Kakhovka dam could be as serious an ecological disaster as Chernobyl in 1986.
However, if the reservoir behind the dam is significantly drained in the future, it may become challenging to refill the cooling system and run the diesel generators.
“This will [impact] Romania, Georgia, Turkey, and Bulgaria. It will be harmful to the entire region,” Ukraine's Former minister of ecology, Ostap Semerak, said. “Our government has announced this is the biggest environmental catastrophe in Europe over the past ten years, and I think it may be the worst in Ukraine since Chornobyl in 1986,” he added., the turbine room at the hydropower plant has already been submerged under water, resulting in the loss of 150 tonnes of industrial lubricants.
Furthermore, it has been stated that landmines will be relocated and concealed by silt, rendering them more difficult to detect and disassemble. “This is [a huge] disaster, but it is too early to assess the impact and difficult to compare with what has happened before,” said Denys Tsutsaiev from Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe. “We don’t know how much the dam is damaged,” he added.
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