In addition to the devastation and death caused by Russian missiles, the invasion has also caused flooding in Demydiv village after a Russian strike on a nearby dam.
The Russian strike hit the dam and a hydroelectric facility at the end of February, sending a deluge of water coursing from Kyiv’s reservoir into parts of Demydiv, village leader Oleksandr Melnychenko told AFP.
The road that passes through Demydiv and across that bridge heads straight toward central Kyiv — it’s about an hour’s drive to the presidential palace. As well as blasting the bridge, authorities had also opened the dam, raising the river level by about 30 centimetres and making it too wide for the Russians to cross using a portable pontoon bridge, he said.But the flooding hit later when a projectile hit the dam on February 27, raising the water by many metres near the village.
At the levee itself, flotsam composed of sticks and plastic bottles appeared to show a high-water mark well below the barrier’s crest.
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