A 30-meters tall dam that once held back a reservoir 150 miles long in southern Ukraine was breached, flooding nearby towns and villages and forcing residents to flee
Ukraine accused Russia of blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam in a deliberate war crime. The Kremlin said it was Ukraine that had sabotaged the dam, to distract attention from the launch of a major counteroffensive Moscow says is faltering. Some Russian-installed officials said the dam had burst on its own.
On the Russian-controlled bank of the Dnipro, the Moscow-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka said water levels had risen to 11 metres . Residents reached by telephone there told Reuters that some had decided to stay despite being ordered out by occupying Russians. The vast reservoir behind the dam is one of the main geographic features of southern Ukraine, 240 km long and up to 23 km wide.
"Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Earlier, Russian-installed officials had given conflicting accounts, some saying the dam had been hit by Ukrainian missiles overnight, others saying it had burst on its own due to earlier damage.The U.N. nuclear watchdog said the Zaporizhzhia power plant, upriver on the reservoir's Russian-held bank, should have enoughVshowed water surging through the remains of the dam - which is 30 metres tall and 3.2 km long.
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