{"id":1945025,"date":"2023-06-06T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-dam-in-ukraine-is-destroyed-unleashing-wide-scale-flooding-potential-disaster-for-nuke-reactor\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:30:51","slug":"major-dam-in-ukraine-is-destroyed-unleashing-wide-scale-flooding-potential-disaster-for-nuke-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-dam-in-ukraine-is-destroyed-unleashing-wide-scale-flooding-potential-disaster-for-nuke-reactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s major dam destroyed, causing massive flooding and posing a threat to nuclear reactor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajor-dam-in-ukraine-is-destroyed-unleashing-wide-scale-flooding-potential-disaster-for-nuke-reactor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Breaking News: Major Dam Destroyed in Southern Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>In a devastating turn of events, a 2-mile-long dam in southern Ukraine was destroyed early Tuesday morning, causing over 15,000 residents downstream to be evacuated immediately. The Kakhovka dam, located in Russian-occupied territory, holds the same amount of water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah and was built nearly seven decades ago as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-to-the-dictator-iranians-take-to-streets-in-anti-regime-protests\/\" title=\"\u2018Death To The Dictator\u2019: Iranians Take To Streets In Anti-Regime Protests\">hydroelectric power plant<\/a> on the Dnipro River.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-says-russia-blows-up-major-nova-kakhovka-dam-southern-ukraine-2023-06-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, Ukrainian officials accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russian officials suggested that it was a Ukrainian terrorist attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to Twitter to condemn the attack, calling the perpetrators &#8220;Russian terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land. Not a single meter should be left to them, because they use every meter for terror. It\u2019s only\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ErBog1gRhH\">pic.twitter.com\/ErBog1gRhH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@ZelenskyyUa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1665952784665964545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York Times spoke with experts who warned that the destruction caused by the dam\u2019s demolition could be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for \u201ccommunities, irrigation, and transportation.\u201d The International Atomic Energy Agency is closely monitoring the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which gets the water it needs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-vice-president-harris-criticized-for-memorial-day-weekend-tweets-that-failed-to-mention-fallen-soldiers\/\" title=\"President Biden, Vice President Harris Criticized For Memorial Day Weekend Tweets That Failed To Mention Fallen Soldiers\">stay cool<\/a> from the reservoir. While the six reactors at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-continues-nuclear-program-aims-to-enrich-uranium-to-20\/\" title=\"Iran continues nuclear program, aims to enrich uranium to 20%\">nuclear facility<\/a> are shut down, they still require water to keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-dam-in-ukraine-is-destroyed-unleashing-wide-scale-flooding-potential-disaster-for-nuke-reactor\/\" title=\"Ukraine's major dam destroyed, causing massive flooding and posing a threat to nuclear reactor.\">radioactive fuel inside<\/a> the reactor cores cool.<\/p>\n<p>As former minister of energy of Ukraine, Ivan Plachkov, stated, &#8220;It is a very dangerous situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Stay Informed with DailyWire+<\/h3>\n<p>Stay up-to-date with the latest news and analysis on this developing story and more with the DailyWire+ app. <b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1685885459858000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0AFvCLn4CIt7S8nPLjhrIg\">Download it now<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dam in southern Ukraine, under Russian occupation, was destroyed on Tuesday. The 2-mile-long Kakhovka dam caused over 15,000 residents to evacuate due to rising water levels. Officials warned that the water levels would reach a critical point in a few hours. The dam held the same amount of water as 180,000 Olympic swimming pools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1945026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7895,5623,18971,6353,3752,5908,4639,8770,16670,4104,10704],"class_list":["post-1945025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-destroyed","tag-causing","tag-dam","tag-flooding","tag-major","tag-massive","tag-nuclear","tag-posing","tag-reactor","tag-threat","tag-ukraines"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}