{"id":218739,"date":"2022-10-24T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=218739"},"modified":"2022-10-24T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:31:19","slug":"explaining-ukraine-151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/explaining-ukraine-151","title":{"rendered":"Looming environmental disaster in Ukraine&#8217;s south. &#8211; Weekly digest, 16-23 Oct (podcast)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"lazyload\"  title=\"Looming environmental disaster in Ukraine&#039;s south. - Weekly digest, 16-23 Oct | Ep. 151 by UkraineWorld\" width=\"662\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1368982912&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=993&#038;maxwidth=662\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian troops are preparing for street fighting in Kherson, as they cannot hold back the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the South. There is a risk that they will blow up the dam at the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, provoking one of the worst environmental disasters in Eastern European history. Learn more from the weekly digest of our Explaining Ukraine podcast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosts: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and journalist, chief editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/ukraineworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UkraineWorld.org<\/a>, and Tetyana Ogarkova, Ukrainian scholar and journalist, in charge of <a href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/internationaloutreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">international outreach<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ukraine Crisis Media Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>UCMC\u2019s contribution to episode #151 is supported by the joint Ukraine Crisis Media Center and Estonian Centre for International Development project that is funded by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and American Embassy in Kyiv.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian troops are preparing for street fighting in Kherson, as they cannot hold back the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the South. There is a risk that they will blow up the dam at the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, provoking one of the worst environmental disasters in Eastern European history. 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