The long-term consequences for agriculture will be severe in one of Ukraine's most fertile areas.
Officials are still trying to assess the vast flow of water through the stricken dam. It's likely that in a few weeks a reservoir first created in 1956, after the dam and adjacent hydroelectric plant were completed, will be a river once more.
Even before the cost of the current losses is calculated, international markets have taken note. The flooding helped to trigger a sharp rise in global wheat prices.But it's not just agriculture that's going to be affected by this manmade disaster. Another consequence of the flooding that residents along the swollen river are already starting to see - and smell - is pollution.
"Both from the hydroelectric power station itself and from secondary pollutants in areas. Every city has its own sewage system."
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