Russia blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam. How will it affect Ukraine’s economy?

The Kakhovka hydroelectric power station collapsed overnight on Tuesday after Russia blew it from the inside – something Kyiv warned of as far back as last October.

Commissioned in 1955, the Kakhovka HPP was the last dam constructed on the Dnipro riverbed. It created the Kakhovka reservoir upstream, leading to the water level on its territory rising by 16 metres.

Such destruction violates the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949.