By day, NASA satellites have captured other momentous effects of Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.
These images of southeastern Ukraine and western Russia that were made on June 14, 2012 and June 6, 2026 highlight the disappearance of the water reservoir (center left) that stretched northeast of the Kakhovka Dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River.
The dam was destroyed on June 6, 2023 and its reservoir drained into the Black Sea. The 2026 photo also shows a band of green and untended land sweeping from the center of the image up to its top right, where the war’s current front line stretches.
