Looming environmental disaster in Ukraine's south. - Weekly digest, 16-23 Oct | Ep. 151 | Explaining Ukraine podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
Looming environmental disaster in Ukraine's south. - Weekly digest, 16-23 Oct | Ep. 151
Russian troops are preparing for street fighting in Kherson, as they cannot hold back the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the South. There is a risk that they will blow up the dam at the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, provoking one of the worst environmental disasters in Eastern European history. Learn more from the weekly digest of our Explaining Ukraine podcast. Hosts: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and journalist, chief editor of UkraineWorld.org, and Tetyana Ogarkova, Ukrainian scholar and journalist, in charge of international outreach at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre. Support us at patreon.com/ukraineworld