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The Russians (who were still in control of it) let the water in the reservoir behind the dam reach a 30 year high when this happened. Each side controls one bank of the Dnipro River. The Russian side will get the worst of the flooding but their side was also heavily mined. That will make river crossings much more dangerous because they'll be harder to detect and some will probably be washed away downstream somewhere. The dam was supplying electricity to Ukraine, so that's a problem for them, and if the reservoir drains too much then the nearby Zaphorhiza nuclear plant may have trouble cooling its reactors. Also a problem! All in all it causes more problems for the Ukrainians than the Russians so you can make some assumptions there.
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