When Russia destroyed Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in June 2023, unleashing catastrophic floods across the country’s south, it seemed like such a blatant act of environmental and humanitarian devastation might finally jolt the international community into taking more action to support Ukraine.
But two years later, that flashpoint has dimmed, buried beneath a grim and growing list of atrocities that have followed in its wake.
In the book “Ecocide in Ukraine,” Ukrainian scholar Darya Tsy