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It's pretty common for the media to misreport things at first, especially when two similar events happen nearby. Both dams are part of the Kyiv reservoir, and i
by mopsi 1y ago
It's pretty common for the media to misreport things at first, especially when two similar events happen nearby. Both dams are part of the Kyiv reservoir, and it's easy to mistake one for the other when they're both referred to simply as a "Kyiv reservoir dam".
The point remains: there are two different dams, one south of Kozarovychi, which was blown up by Ukraine to flood the Irpin river valley wetlands that were drained in the 1960s; the other east of Vyshhorod, still standing despite multiple Russian attacks, and posing a danger to Kyiv if destroyed.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Kozarovychi_Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Kozarovychi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant
- drysine 1y ago[flagged]
- dang 1y agoCould you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN, and please stop using the site primarily for political and nationalistic battle? These things are not what the site is for, and destroy what it is for. You've been doing a great deal of this lately, which is not ok, and (to judge by this account) seem to have little interest in HN for any other reason. That's not cool. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Edit: I did see that you posted quite a few good comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43006536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43006536, which is certainly not political or nationalistic battle. That's good. But we need you to stop breaking the site guidelines in other threads, and we need your primary use of HN to be for curiosity, not opposing enemies.
- dang 1y agoPlease see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285818. (I'm adding this here because the other thread is already 6 days old. It's not that you broke the site guidelines in the current thread.)