The draining of one of Europe's largest reservoirs as a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam has revealed submerged military objects that offer a reminder of wars past and present on Ukrainian soil.
A deminer stands in a boat next to the wreckage of an S-300 rocket, which fell a few months ago in the Dnipro river and became visible after water level sharply dropped following the Kakhovka dam destruction, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, June 12, 2023.
He said the amount of explosive or dangerous items the unit had been called out to deal with had grown several times since the Kakhovka dam was destroyed last Monday.said the Kakhovka reservoir, which was the body of water contained by the dam, had lost nearly three-quarters of its volume.Each side blames the other for the dam's destruction last week, butis growing that there was an explosion at the dam around the time it collapsed, according to Ukrainian and U.S.
"We often recover remnants of S-300 rockets, remnants of Smerch rockets, and after the water fell we are finding munitions from World War Two," he said.
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