Two years ago, in the early hours of June 6, 2023, the Kakhovka dam was partially destroyed, which were included in the Russian-controlled region in nearby towns and cities in southern Ukraine. As a reservoir, which provided water to the nearby station, spread to the surrounding Terai areas, Ukraine and Russia traded allegations on the destruction of the dam.
After water, the exposed basin undergoes a dramatic change, it dried up and became a desert. Today, green vegetation has occupied the house for a wide variety of wildlife.
Dnipro River – The largest of Ukraine – has once again formed the huge floodlines, which were before the Dam War War Fire built in the 1950s. Equalist Wadim Maniuk told DW that DNIPRO has several tributaries in the area.
Whatever happens in the flood scenario is hidden from seeing, but he said, but such streams are on the banks of the river.
“They can be fast flowing streams, or narrow or against people, are similar to the ponds. All thesis lacquer existed, before there was a flood to build the dam in the area,” he said.
Birdsong disrupts many of the braws, as Maniyuk spots a sea eagle. “Just until it is worth bringing with a pair of binoculars,” he said, staring at the sky. “This DNipro is the true ruler of floodlines.”
Over the next few hours, Maniyuk’s team has the identity of hawks, bizards, herons, swallows, snakes, a muscat and track, left in the mud by wild boar. Local people say that they have also seen deer. According to the ecology, Tems with underbrush ants, wasp, beetle, killer insects, butterflies and prayers.
Among the grass, the team finds pieces of fossil bones and pottery of prehistoric animals. One of the bones looks like a hoof, and Maniyuk raises it and examines it.
“This is an ancient bone. There was no cow back here,” Heer said. “There are many such bones here, including Wulli rhinoceros and mammoths, and other large prehistoric big animals.”
Change the landscape
Maniuk surveyed the area a year ago, and he said that the inter -strut between then and now is striking. The grass has grown everywhere, and different varieties of flowering plants have grown from about 200 to about 500 species.
Where on dry sand, green grasslands now thrive. Poppies, sedges, thisTles, goats and wild rye bloom everywhere. Maniyuk said, “It was not here a year ago,” over time, “over time, not only the forest but therefore Meadows wants the form here.”
So far, the trees have become five or six meters (15–20 ft) long; Maniuk estimates that Villo and Popper have covered a distance of about one meter in the last 12 months. But he said that it was very dangerous to move forward. “The forest has changed, it has become very dense and grown,” he explained.
Last year, it is not easy for the flooding, Maniuk said. The heat and decline of 2024 was very dry, and began with the tree. Thanks to the spring rain, however, the landscape is beginning to recover.
“Flooding with your first trial,” Hey said, “but we are worried about the upcoming season.”
Should Kakhovka power be planned?
But the future of this new ecosystem remains uncertain, as Ukraine is still deliberately doing whether to reconstruct the Kakhova hydroelectric power plant destroyed in 2023.
Petro Volvatch visited the flooding as a child before the construction of the dam. He is against the reconstruction of the plant, as it will destroy the newly formed landscape.
Maniuk agrees. “I am sure it can be counted as one of the top 10 national parks in Europe,” he said enthusiastically. “It will be incredible!”
But the engineers argue that the entire Kakhovka plant is important for water supply for agricultural errors, shipping and energy system along with residential and businesses of the region. Since the destruction of the dam, not enough
Water level in Wales ‘decreases every year’
Oleh Paschenko of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant warned that the absence of the reservoir is endangered the existence of the entire region.
“The water level in the wells is low every year,” he said. In the first six months after the destruction of the dam, the level fell five meters; Now they are 15 meters or more below the normal level.
Pashchenko predicted that the 2025 DNipro wants to be a difficult year for the river, as the income is already three to five times less than normal. “This is why the reservoir should be rebuilt,” said Heer. Otherwise, he is afraid, without it, “We will soon have a desert.”
He said that the current situation is not yet important due to the decline in the rapid population caused by the war and reducing agriculture and industrial activity. He said that the water shortgans deteriorate, when people return, they said.
Meanwhile, the state energy company Ukrhydroenergo is developing a power plant and reconstruction plan of reservoir. The first step will examine the remains of the dam and the reservoir bed. Reconstruction of the power plant may take five to six years; Refilling the reservoir alone is expected to take two years. Ukrhydroenergo said that this is the only way to ensure safe drinking water for the region.
“If the state needs it, we will build a large power plant there,” said the acting director general of Yuchhydroengo, Bohdan Sukhuthiki. “Everything depends on the economic situation.
This article was original in German.
