In 2022, Ukraine thwarted a Russian assault on Kyiv by flooding the Irpin River valley. Now, experts are calling for Europe to create a band of wetlands along its eastern flank to deter Russian aggression — and military leaders are taking notice.
Ukraine blew up the Kozarovychi dam, flooding the Irpin river valley and blocking the roads to Kyiv for Russian armored columns. Russia attempted (unsuccessfully) to destroy the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, which would have flooded northern and central Kyiv. Since then, the plant's dam has been targeted several more times without sustaining major damage.
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.
Could 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.
Edit: I did see that you posted quite a few good comments in this thread: 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.
