Ukraine's hydroelectric company Ukrhydroenerho said on June 6 it had initiated international arbitration seeking damages for Russia's destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam and power station in June 2023. The state-run company declined to say where it had begun the arbitration process but said it had estimated the damage at 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion). The Nova Kakhovka dam was captured by Russia at the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Kyiv has blamed Russian forces for blowing it up on the night of June 6, 2023, flooding swathes of arable land and hundreds of houses, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without drinking water, and depriving the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant of water needed to cool its reactors.