Google Maps updates satellite images of Kakhovka HPP and reservoir
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- Alisa Melik-Adamian
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16:00, 02 February, 2025
New satellite images of the Kherson region have been added to Google Maps.
This was reported by the local edition of MOST.
In particular, maps in the area of the Kakhovka HPP and the Kakhovka Reservoir have been updated.
The images dated 2020 show a filled reservoir, while the 2024 photo shows huge shrunken, and in some places completely dry, areas that have already been covered with vegetation.
Photo from 2024
Photo from 2020The Dnipro River in the Kherson region has also changed its appearance significantly, in particular, judging by the images, it has become much narrower.
Photo from 2024The consequences of the hydroelectric power plant explosion are also clearly visible in the images between the right and left banks of the Kherson region. The floodplains, which were somewhat wider before the dam was destroyed, now look less green, and some of their areas have disappeared altogether.
However, it is currently impossible to see the destroyed Kakhovka HPP itself, as Google Maps shows the new landscapes only from a distance, and when you approach, the map returns to the previous version, where the HPP still exists.
Photo from 2024As a reminder, at dawn on 6 June, it became known that the dam of the Kakhovka HPP had been blown up. In a matter of hours, villages and towns in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions were flooded. In particular, water passed through 13 settlements of the Snihurivka community.
The village of Afanasiivka in Snihurivka district was completely cut off by water. The two roads leading to the village, as well as most of the houses, were flooded after the occupiers blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.
On 9 June, it became known that the water had risen by 6 metres. It took several weeks for the water to recede.
Within the Snihurivka community, 375 houses were damaged due to flooding.