Episode Summary

On June 6th, 2023, the Kakhovka Dam on the Dnipro River experienced a critical failure and collapsed, rapidly draining the Kakhovka reservoir and flooding much of southeastern Ukraine. 48 settlements were flooded — 34 of them in Ukraine controlled territory — impacting hundreds of thousands of people. Thousands of species of animals and plants in parts of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions were also lost. Meanwhile, dozens of conspiracy theories about Ukraine blowing up the dam itself began to appear on the Internet and in the media.

Yulia speaks with Adam Ratliff, an engineering educator on social media, and talk about what actually happened to the Kakhovka Dam. Did Ukraine intentionally blow it up?

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• Read Svidomi Media's accounting of what happened at the Kakhovka Dam on Instagram.

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