BREAKING: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy arrives in flood-hit region of Kherson after dam breach. Five people have been killed in the flooding in a Russian-occupied town, a Kremlin-installed official says. Evacuations are ongoing on both sides.
People ride on a rubber boat in a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Floodwaters from a collapsed dam kept rising in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes in a major emergency operation that brought a dramatic new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. People ride on a rubber boat in a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023.
KHERSON, Ukraine — Five residents of a Russian-occupied city next to a breached dam have died in massive flooding triggered by the catastrophe, its Kremlin-appointed mayor said Thursday, the first official report of deaths from one of the largest environmental crises since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than 15 months ago.
Vladimir Leontyev, the Russian-appointed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, told Russian state TV that two other people who had gone missing following
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